Google Gears -- Apollo 和 WFP的竞争对手又多了一个...

Google (GOOG) is taking another jab at Microsoft (MSFT) by further blurring the line between Web-based and desktop apps.  Yesterday, it announced Google Gears, an open-source project for software developers that lets them convert their Web-based applications to desktop applications that can operate on their own without a connection to the Internet.  Google will enable such offline use for its own Google Reader so that people can read blog and news feeds on a plane or at the beach just like they now can download their e-mails with Outlook.

Google Gears represents the latest step in what I call the whole Webtop movement, and is similar to what Adobe is trying to do with its Apollo project.  The basic idea here is that if you can get Web software developers to easily create desktop apps, then the current distinction between the two disappears.  And so does Microsoft's hold on the desktop.

http://blogs.business2.com/business2blog/2007/05/google_gears_ta.html

不过如何不连接INTERNET而看新闻...技术上如何处理?  PRE-CACHING??  奇怪...

评论

3 楼 jasongreen 2007-06-01  

好像是表达上的问题，google 一直是想将人们习惯的desktop操作，移动到webtop上，利用google的webbase产品，来给用户带来更方便的体验。

but Google Gears has some feather:
Google Gears consists of three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline.
LocalServer   LocalServer
Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
Database Database
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
WorkerPool WorkerPool
Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously

个人理解，用户访问了某个Google Gears web后，将在本地留有记录，此后，在offline情况下，可以调出这个网页，并且可以毫无问题的浏览。

2 楼 lordhong 2007-05-31  

kaktos 写道

联机download到本地，本地数据库用了sqlite

这和MS的SMART AGENT没什么区别啊, 人家出来都3年了.
这个概念出来好几年了.  GOOGLE炒冷饭?

如果GEARS CACHE 50条新闻, 我想看第51条, 但又没连接到INTERNET, 我不是还看不到? 没创意!

1 楼 kaktos 2007-05-31  

联机download到本地，本地数据库用了sqlite