Buddy Toups: A Designer’s Blog July 17, 2007

Very interesting new web browser plugin from Google called Google Gears. Its an open source (new BSD license) plugin that allows web developers the ability to store local / client-side databases (embedded SQLite), local / client-side HTTP server (LocalServer) and run JavaScript code in the background (WorkerPool) isolated from the loaded web pages own resources. And all these features are available and were design for off-line web application development.

Currently Google Gears is available in Beta (At the this time of writing). Google Gears is cross-platform, cross-browser and open source plugin

Google Gears API Documentation