Google Gears!! A New face of Web Browser

Google Gears

There are several technologies coming in the Web world and creating a huge difference in the Web technology Market trends. Recently we have seen several new revolution software tools such as Javascript API's, FLEX, Silverlight, etc.. In the Same way, A new Innovative tech-idea from Google is Google Gears. Recently they have launched this tool, this will be very useful for web browsers as we can work offline with our websites having browser interacting with the local databases and with little bit Javascript running in the background.

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:

What was the Idea behind Gears?

What i thought was: Its just to bring forward the features of tomorrow’s web technologies into today’s browsers and make them more light weight and increase their Performance drastically.

Gears is a plug-in that extends your browser to create a richer platform for web applications. To install Gears, visit http://gears.google.com

Gears was designed to be used on both Google and non-Google sites. A number of web applications currently make use of Gears, including two Google products: Google Reader and Google Docs. Additionally, Zoho and Remember the Milk have been using Gears since its original launch. If you're running Windows Mobile on your cellphone, Picasa Web Albums also makes use of Gears.

Gears has basically 3 Modules:

They are :

1) Local Server

2) Database

3) Worker Pool

Local Server: Where as Local Server Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally.

Database: Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database

Worker Pool: Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously.

This will a great news for Web developers. Now we can do what ever desktop related stuff.

Type of work we can do using Gears:

1) You can save the data in the local database and can access whenever you want.

2) Save information locally and access anytime.

3) Create Desktop Shortcuts, Can work very easily with Desktop Applications such as saving the settings at runtime etc..

If you're a developer interested in making your site available offline, we recommend visiting the Gears developer site for more information.

In the Recent Past google conducted some sessions on the Google Gears and other few technologies to discuss. Luckily they have all the videos recorded and posted in Youtube. So guys, Dont forget to watch the videos online. Watch here...

Key Points:

Google Gears Support WINDOWS, LINUX
Supports Mozilla Firefox 3.0