> Gears plugin is much less widespread but I found installation user- > friendly and customizeble. Gears plugin is used, for example, by > Gmail and Google Reader for offile data storage, by Youtube for > their video uploader and by Myspace for faster message filtering.
I'm impressed with your project. Just a note that anyone who has the Yahoo! Toolbar for IE (a _ton_ of regular users) can't use Gears. We debated building something public on Gears, but this was a deal-killer. (Especially because of the link between JRE setup and Y! Toolbar -- if you've used applets in the past, you've implicitly pushed the toolbar to some portion of your users, and now they can't switch to a Gears-based alternative.) -- Sandy
