Comments on: Who’s Offline? Google Gears… http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/ ColdFusion, Ant, jQuery and other geeky stuff Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:43:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kevin Hoyt http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/comment-page-1/#comment-3293 Kevin Hoyt Thu, 31 May 2007 20:38:34 +0000 http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/#comment-3293 On some level I agree that offline by itself has a limited use-case - especially long term. What I think is significant for Apollo is the additional native integration. Drag-and-drop to-and-from the application and/or desktop. Custom window chrome. Modal windows. Native menu bars (i.e. at top on Mac, and in the window on Windows). Application specific extensions/file types. Fully configurable context menus... With Apollo we're talking about a lot more than just offline, but really about extending web applications to the desktop. On some level I agree that offline by itself has a limited use-case – especially long term.

What I think is significant for Apollo is the additional native integration. Drag-and-drop to-and-from the application and/or desktop. Custom window chrome. Modal windows. Native menu bars (i.e. at top on Mac, and in the window on Windows). Application specific extensions/file types. Fully configurable context menus… With Apollo we’re talking about a lot more than just offline, but really about extending web applications to the desktop.

]]> By: Rob Wilkerson http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/comment-page-1/#comment-3292 Rob Wilkerson Thu, 31 May 2007 14:08:45 +0000 http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/#comment-3292 Everyone seems to be talking about the offline potential, but I think there can be more to it. A stronger selling point to me is the possibility of quelling privacy concerns by using the embedded database to store personal data. Your application has access to it, but users are given peace of mind knowing that their data remains "in house". I wrote a bit about it at http://musetracks.instantspot.com/blog/index.cfm/2007/5/31/Google-Gears-for-Offline-Applications Everyone seems to be talking about the offline potential, but I think there can be more to it. A stronger selling point to me is the possibility of quelling privacy concerns by using the embedded database to store personal data. Your application has access to it, but users are given peace of mind knowing that their data remains “in house”.

I wrote a bit about it at http://musetracks.instantspot......plications

]]> By: Joshua May http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/comment-page-1/#comment-3291 Joshua May Thu, 31 May 2007 12:58:45 +0000 http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/#comment-3291 agreed, I was on the plane home from the Sydney developer day (where it was announced!) reading my feeds. It was a really nice way to kill an hour! agreed, I was on the plane home from the Sydney developer day (where it was announced!) reading my feeds. It was a really nice way to kill an hour!

]]> By: Rob Brooks-Bilson http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/comment-page-1/#comment-3290 Rob Brooks-Bilson Thu, 31 May 2007 04:14:40 +0000 http://www.thecrumb.com/2007/05/30/whos-offline-google-gears/#comment-3290 My biggest use case (personal) right now is reading my RSS feeds when I'm on an airplane, which is quite often these days. It makes a great fit with Google Reader. My biggest use case (personal) right now is reading my RSS feeds when I’m on an airplane, which is quite often these days. It makes a great fit with Google Reader.

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