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Gears, formerly Google Gears, was software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to the web browser. It allows some online files to be used offline". Released under the BSD license, Gears is free and open source software.

Gears, formerly Google Gears, was software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to the web browser. It allows some online files to be used offline". Released under the BSD license, Gears is free and open source software.

In late November 2009, numerous online news sources reported that Google was going to migrate to Web Storage rather than use Gears in the future. A Google spokesman later clarified that Google would, however, continue to support Gears so as not to break sites using it. On 22 November 2011, Google announced that on 1 December 2011, Gears support would be removed from Gmail and Google Calendar. Gears was removed from Google Chrome stable on June 7, 2011.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_gears

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Google Gears drag and drop upload

I recently watched the google wave video from google i/o where they said you can drag and drop files from windows explorer to the browser and upload them using gears. Can someone point me in the right direction to do this myself? I've browsed around…
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offline data storage & access using jQuery

does anybody have any experience writing up a offline data storage & access app on jquery. my server side app would be an ASP.Net app. basically, i would be providing a trimmed down version of my web app so that users could access some of the data…
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How to run the Google Gears extension on Firefox 4?

I am running Firefox 4 beta for testing, and unfortunately Google hasn't updated their Gears extension for Firefox 4. At this point, it even seems that Google might not update Gears for Firefox 4. Do you guys know of any trick to get Gears to run on…
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Synchronizing one or more databases with a master database - Foreign keys

I'm using Google Gears to be able to use an application offline (I know Gears is deprecated). The problem I am facing is the synchronization with the database on the server. The specific problem is the primary keys or more exactly, the foreign keys.…
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Google Gears - To what level is synchronization supported?

I have a few questions about data synchronization. The architecture does not seem to be clear about this: Does Google Gears provide from automatic synchronization of data (from client to server and server to client)? If it does provide for…
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Is there a secure browser cache?

Note: this is a different problem to https - it's related to privacy security I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to take load off our server [cache] by pushing information to the browser. Is there any technology that will provide secure…
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google gears discontinued, html 5 in draft

we've trying to develop a mobile web app that will provide offline capabilities, not just reading but also creating content. Gears supports three important aspects: - local server so we can have cached static content such as html, css, js, etc -…
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Can I access Gears from a Chrome extension?

Developing extensions for Google Chrome 4.x. I'd like to keep a couple of parameters persistent, and thought about using Google Gears' Database object - since it's always installed with Chrome.But I couldn't find any documentation that will tell me…
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Using IxEdit in Firefox

I read about IxEdit on Stackoverflow and I want to try it. My favorite browser for doing Javascript is Firefox. The problem is that Google Gears is a dependency for Ixedit and that seems to have been deprecated. Is there any way to get Google…
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offline/local browser application with database but without a server behind it

I want to make a 'application' that operates through a browser. It should be offline / local on the users machine. It needs a database to store and retrieve data. And - because it should be really easy to use - it should run without a server. The…
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Google Gears SQL Lite DB and C#

Under the covers, Google Gears uses SQL Lite as its data store. Has anyone successfully connected to the Google Gears SQL Lite DB with C#? Thanks
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Accessing Local Files From Web Application

I am looking into if it is possible to have a web application access local files. The application would be akin to a word processor metaphor, making the opening/saving of local files very direct on the user's part -- they would be requesting a…
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HTML5 Geolocation for IE8 and Mobile Browsers

So I have been developing a web application, and I have implemented the HTML5 geolocation feature. I have implemented this using Javascript code taken from Google's website, that interacts with the Google Map that I have on my page as well. Here is…
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Client side local storage of data

I want to store some data client side. Cookies are my first inclination, but they get sent with every request, right? Is there a way to store data without it being transferred? I don't necessarily want to add 10-20k of overhead for every request.…
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What makes Silverlight an engaging and compelling technology?

There seems to be increasing demand for Silverlight skills, but out of the many new technologies that Microsoft has punted, I've never felt as if it was the next big thing! Am I wrong? Should I be gaining those skills? There's obviously a…
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