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Google Gears

Ein Posting bei Inside RIA zeigt wofür sich Google Gears ausser Offline Funktionalität einsetzen lässt.

Gears is a big step forward in developing rich Internet applications. Many people are comparing Gears with HTML5. However, Gears is not a successor to HTML5; it’s more of a predecessor. HTML5 is a standard, but is not yet finished and, after it will be finished, will take several years before will be enough people to use HTML5 compatible browsers to be used in Web applications. Until then, Gears provides many of its features with the help of a browser plug-in. On the list of future features for Gears is to make the code written for Gears compatible with HTML 5. Because of this, coders working with Gears today will have a headstart on HTML 5 tomorrow. And most important, Gears is not “just” for making an application work offline. It can enhance Web applications in many, many ways, bringing those applications one step closer to desktop applications.

JavaScript development, testing and deployment environment

Frizione klingt nach einem coolen Projekt, aber irgendwie blicke ich das nicht. Es tut nicht was ich will Aber wahrscheinlich muss ich mir das mal in Ruhe ansehen.

Frizione is a JavaScript development, testing and

deployment environment. It comprises a library agnostic set of tools for any type of browser based JavaScript development, which coincidentally has Gears support.

Frizione provides local JSLint checking of your JavaScript code.

Frizione provides joining (concatenation) of JavaScript files to produce unique libraries.

Frizione uses the YUICompressor to reduce your JavaScript code to the bone.

Frizione provides a two stage unit testing framework, using your JavaScript code and a minimum framework to run the tests, which are stored to hard disk in JSON format. The results can then be displayed using a second unit test viewer page.

Google Gears Tutorial

OnLamp.com bringt zwei Artikel zu Google Gears.

Die Artikel gehen hauptsächlich auf die Verwendung der SQLite Datenbank ein.

Part 1 Part 2

Offline Web Applications

Google gibt Google Gears - Enabling Offline Web Applications als Beta frei.

Google Gears (BETA) is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using following JavaScript APIs:

• Store and serve application resources locally
• Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
• Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Sehr interessant. Auf den ersten Blick flexibler als The Dojo Offline Toolkit.

Dojo Offline is a free, open source toolkit that makes it easy for web applications to work offline. It consists of two pieces: a JavaScript library bundled with your web page and a small (~300K) cross-platform, cross-browser download that helps to cache your web application’s user-interface for use offline.

Ich werde wohl mal mit beiden Ansätzen ein wenig spielen müssen.