On 31st May 2007, Google celebrated their Google Developers day. What a day! Seminars were held at many places all over the world. I wished there were some seminars in Delhi, India too. But anyways, as I had a limited usage internet connection, I could check out only 1 video from YouTube.
It was about developing faster AJAX applications using Google Gears.Google gears are the new API developed by Google, which make available the internet content offline! Surprised, don't be, but yes its true. They have developed a application which include Localserver and SQLite database to store application pages and data on the user's computer. It includes another layer between the internet server and the client browser. This is the localserver that stores the data and makes it available when the user asks for it, but this request is possible offline also. Also they provide a synchronization tool Workerpool that is used to synchronize the offline stored data with the actual content that is available when internet connection is enabled.
This API is made available by installing the bundle into a small installer available at gears.google.com . Basically the API is an JavaScript code that can embedded into the application and this makes it available offline. Well the rest of the details of it, along with it are available at their site as mentioned above. Since I have also come to know about it today itself, so saying much about it would be inappropriate. So i would recommend checking out the site yourself for more details.
Though I was not able to attend the live event, I definitely appreciate this step taken up by Google. I know that this was a way to popularize their products, but it doesn't really matter as long as it can keep up the good work, and add new delicacies in our(developers) lives :)
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