Depends, lol. IMHO, for the super majority of non-mobile browser users out there right now Gears is the only sensible way to provide a local database and offline capabilities. However since Google has ceased development and the community is not cranking out the missing pieces the latest browser updates are already problematic for gears.
So, if your app needs a local db and works offline, and your potential customers don't require very latest browser update, you are good to go w/gears now and transition them to HTML5 later. Strangely enough this may make some Enterprises viable customers as they rarely adopt the latest Browsers, meaning Gears is and will be viable for them for quite some time, but of course selling their IT on a non-supported plug-in is no prize for sure. I personally have been working on a super-complex Gears app for almost three years and am just now going to beta. We've have embraced Gears capabilities to the fullest and there is just no way to match the capabilites Gears gives us vs. HTML5 right now, so we're going with what we've got. No doubt there will be massive eye rolling and speculation about why we would choose to use an unsupported technology for our app. But the fact is there is just no other viable alternative right now, and we think/hope that when customers try our app and like it the Gears issue will become moot. And we will of course offer a brain-dead server-based version of our app for the troglodytes. The fact is that taking advantage of these types of capabilites in a browser is quite difficult, and when HTML5 capabilites become more widespread those of us with Gears experience will be well-positioned to benefit because of our extensive experience with these types of apps and working codebases capable of utilizing HTML5. And lets not forget our massive and loyal customer base that we awed with our Gears apps... That's my story and I'm sticking to it. On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Naeem Arshad <[email protected]> wrote: > in future days which will be more sufficient and efficient for this > feature? HTML5 or Google gears? Plz give ur opinion. > Actually HTML5 and local database storage is not implemented in all of > the browsers like Firefox. Opera. > so i m confused to select one from Google gears and HTML5 > plz help me to choose. > > On 3/19/10, Kevin Layman <[email protected]> wrote: > > HTML5 is supposed to provide access to local storage. As to when this > will > > be reliably implemented across most browsers your guess is as good as > anyone > > else. > > > > Right now and for some time to come in my opinion Gears is still the best > > way to implement this feature. > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 3:05 AM, Naeem Arshad <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> dear what do u think is theres ome chances to get back or undeploy of > >> Google Gears by google. And plz tell me is there some alternatives > >> instead of Gears to read a DB of sqlite by an HTML page in multiple > >> browsers like firefox and IE8 as well as chrome > >> > >> On 3/19/10, Kevin Layman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > You might try putting the db in the correct profiles folder for your > >> browser > >> > and then passing the db name to gears in the javascript on your web > >> > page. > >> > Unless Gears has some restriction about opening a db it didn't create > >> > you > >> > should be able to access it. > >> > > >> > > >> > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 7:11 AM, naeem <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> >> I have a destop component like a small application developed in JAVA > >> >> which creats a db into some folder on my hard disk. > >> >> How can i read this file with the help of Google Gears. so that the > >> >> record can be extracted? > >> >> > >> >> Help me plz > >> >> > >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gears-users+ > >> >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > >> "REMOVE > >> >> ME" as the subject. > >> >> > >> > > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > gears-users+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with > the > >> > words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > >> > > >> > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gears-users+ > >> unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words > "REMOVE > >> ME" as the subject. > >> > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > gears-users+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the > > words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gears-users+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gears-users+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
