I have been contemplating an extension that would implement some of the gears api on chrome specifically for offline support. Any interest in this? -dcunited
On Dec 31 2009, 11:59 am, Victor Hooi <[email protected]> wrote: > heya, > > You know, I have to agree. > > It all seems a bit like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand > is doing. > > I know, it's been said before that Gears is just a hack, and HTML5 is > the way to go, but there doesn't seem to have been any concrete > announcement or roadmap on when that's happening with any of Google's > flagship apps. So it's like the Gears people are saying, "oh, it's > fine that we don't supportLinux, we'll be using HTML5 soon", and the > Apps people are like "oh, we support Gears only, at this point in > time". > > And in the meanttime, Firefox 64-bitLinuxstill doesn't have proper > Gears support (http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=335), > and Chromium onLinuxdoesn't have proper Gears support (http:// > code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443), and it's quite > obvious from both those issues that there's a lot of support for a > proper solution for either one. > > Hence, things like say, drag-and-drop on Wave don't work properly, nor > does Gmail offline, or any other apps that use Gears at all, really. > > Cheers, > Victor > > On Dec 19 2009, 4:36 am, hackel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > "What gives?" is all I can say... RunningChrome4.0.249.30, I still > > get the message "Offline Mail is not supported by your browser" when > > trying to enable the feature in Gmail. This is quite frustrating. > > Also the fact that 64-bit Gears for Firefox works just fine and you > > continue to drag your feet about releasing it yourself, relying on 3rd- > > party hacks to make it work. When will you fix this problem?
