http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/ Engadget Comments for Google halts development of Gears, makes room for HTML 5 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
It doesn't really mean that it was a horrible idea. Besides, they have a full webkit browser coming next year anyway. ]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
It's not useless. Google Gears always was and still is a temporary bridge to widespread HTML5 adoption and offline storage standard.

This is just another non-story story.

]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
But, the rewards Google can get from localized ads due to the Geolocation API in HTML5 probably makes all the development time for Google Gears well worth the effort.]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Truth be told I don't think anybody seriously uses it even though firefox had it for a while now, some sites have tech demos but that's it.
So sadly yes it will take google to get it into actual use.

AMD/ATI has the same issue, they invent new clever things, add them to hardware, offer them for free, and nobody uses them and all the potential goes lost.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
It's more the potential. They track pretty much everything you do and a lot of people use gmail and other Google services so you can see how much power they have.]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
Stealing the copyright of every out of print book they can get their hands on is pretty evil.]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/"DOUBLECLICK"]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Fact: I trust Google because they have yet to show any signs of being a douche, other then that Android take down notice which still irks me. When they start acting like MS 2.0. Then lets talk.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/That's why they don't sell guns in europe you see, and why there are fewer deaths..
]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Yeah, except for Switzerland, where they're mandatory?]]>Dec 2nd 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
yes but you see there's a reason we can buy guns here though granted it's a pointless reason now, but whole point was to help keep people in charge and not the government so if government started take to much control and do things against peoples wishes we could rise up and be capable of fighting back, but as you can see these days that is not very possible U.S. gov is king of propaganda and turns average citizen into a sheep, and they amass such powerful weapons that citizens cant and shouldn't be able to attain mostly that the gov can and will do what ever it pleases, and if you disagree than you are amongst the majority which are mindless sheep who are told what to believe]]>Dec 3rd 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Advertisers are evil, so yeah it doesn't look good, but you should swim with the flow until you feel the grip relax and then head for shore I'm told.
]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/When Google flips the skynet switch, it will probably offer you the job of a being a battery while it looks to slaughter us all. You still have a chance!]]>Dec 2nd 2009 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
I'm right there with you. These days my day-to-day life is absolutely reliant on and built around Google's products. I use Gmail for _everything_, my Android phone gets me through the hours of the day, Chrome is the only browser I'm willing to use (and also manages to be the first browser in history that I've actually liked instead of just tolerated), and Google Search is damn near the only research tool I've used in a decade.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
Ditto Here. I depend on Gmail, Reader, Google Voice, Picasa, and Youtube. I'm pretty much Google's b*tch. If they flip the evil bit to 1 then I'm going to need nothing short of a 12 step program to move off.
]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/What's it about?
Sorry for ignorance, I've just been hearing "it's a new standard" and it "will replace plugins"

?_?]]>Dec 1st 2009 11:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/In comparison to Gears HTML5 offers the same offline storage features. This will allow web apps to, more or less, act like traditional desktop apps and be available offline along with caching data. So for example an HTML5 version of GMail could allow you to view your contacts, view some cached e-mail, write and que an e-mail message to send when you were online again. This is very important for the future of web apps. Along with standardized multimedia elements this allows HTML5 to offer a very desktop like experience on any HTML5 compliant browser. ]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
I think that the picture is speaking several thousand words here though. a headstone is better than any pun.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 1st 2009 11:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 12:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
Tingle! Tingle!
Linus! Upson!

*flys away on a red balloon*]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/My look and stance, sorry if you can't handle it.
]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/HTML 5 has nothing to do with Google Gears =|

Just because he mentions the two in the same press release doesn't make the two directly related! Causation vs. Correlation .. come on!
They are two entirely different technologies. ]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
HTML5 supports offline storage, which is what Google Gears was meant for.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.zjtechlive.com/try-the-new-google-search/]]>Dec 2nd 2009 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 4:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/Dec 2nd 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
Quick! Someone name a new Google Gears feature they need or bug they've been dying to have fixed. Yeah, that's what I thought.
]]>Dec 2nd 2009 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but it is most certainly a unique thing.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
And yet somehow, I still wouldn't mind. Probably because they'd use the content of my thoughts to somehow make my life easier and more organized and supply me with the service for free.]]>Dec 2nd 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/
Gmail offline storage! Sometime last week, when I logged in, the loading gmail page got stuck on infinite reloading. First made sure it wasn't the better gmail 2 plugin or greasemonkey plugin.

I wish they could at least fix this one thing. Maybe it is fixed by now...]]>Dec 2nd 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/01/google-halts-development-of-gears-makes-room-for-html-5/thats what we think.. for now. As we speak there is probably some evil A.I system running Google waiting for Google to take over some construction aspect and then BAM. Skynet will be born]]>Dec 2nd 2009 2:15PM