The Offline Battle: You aren’t on a plane
The arguments around offline have been brewing for some time. DHH came out with typical flare on why offline doesn't matter as you are either online all the time, or if you aren't, you don't mind it. I...
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Dojo Offline Toolkit Beta Released
Brad Neuberg and the SitePen team has been working tirelessly to get this beta out of the door. Now we have the Dojo Offline Toolkit in beta, released to the world: Dojo Offline is a free, open source...
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Remember The Milk Offline
Remember The Milk is one of the early Web 2.0 entrants that keeps innovating. I think that they were probably the first popular-non-google web applicationto go offline with Gears. They decided to take...
View ArticleAdobe AIR: Fresh name for Apollo
I personally like Apollo, and it had already built recognition, but it is now called Adobe Air. What is new in the Air beta? New features in the Adobe AIR beta include an embedded local database, PDF...
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Writing a desktop application with Ext, AIR, Aptana, and Red Bull
Jack Slocum has kicked off his new Ext JS blog with an entry on his experience writing an application with Ext JS, AIR, Aptana, and lots of Red Bull. As part of the experience Jack has created...
View ArticleDojo Offline: 0.9 and Gears
Brad Neuberg and SitePen have released a new beta of Dojo Offline. This release includes a full port to Google Gears, a port from Dojo 0.4 to 0.9, and more. Features An offline widget that you can...
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Gears Case Study: What we learned from Remember The Milk
As I posted on the Google Gears Blog: Omar Kilani of Remember The Milk took the time to write up his teams experience in Taking web applications offline with Google Gears. The article moves past an...
View ArticleSybase Shows Auto Change Tracking and Syncing with Google Gears and iAnywhere
Eric Farrar of Sybase iAnywhere has been developing a prototype that allows direct database-to-database synchronization of a Gears application to Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 and Sybase databases. We asked...
View ArticleMaking offline web applications even simpler:
Ian Hickson has been doing a great job defining how web pages can declare themselves as applications, and can thus work offline. He has seen that there is a common case, which is "When you build a true...
View ArticleWebRunner 0.7 Released
Adobe's AIR runtime gets a lot of press for bringing web apps to the desktop but Mark Finkle's WebRunner is looking to be an alternative force in this space. WebRunner is a simple XULRunner based...
View ArticleVortex: A new offline abstraction on top of Google Gears
Brian Dunnington liked what he saw with the Dojo Offline Toolkit, and wanted to abstract it out so you could use functionality with any JavaScript library. He ended up with a new library called Vortex,...
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eBay Desktop moves to public beta
eBay's San Dimas project has finally moved to public beta. The application, developed using Adobe's AIR runtime, provides the ability to manage your eBay experience via a well-designed desktop...
View ArticleCraigslist Tibco GI Remix
Luke Birdeau has remixed Craigslist to produce a desktop-esque Ajax application view on the data that adds features such as being able to save your favorites, add notes to them, and even use the app...
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WebRunner Style Customizations
The WebRunner team has added the ability to add style to your application. Mark Fingle said it well: One new feature we added to WebRunner is web application styling or theming. You can drop a...
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Mindmeister: Take your mind map offline
Mindmeister has taken their mind map tool and now allow you to map offline. The tool itself is a nice Ruby on Rails application (includes pink fade effects! yellow is so 2006) that gives you a visual...
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Wikipedia Offline with GearsMonkey
Working on the Gears team we also run across applications that we would love to take offline. A lot of these applications aren't Google's so we thought it would be nice to be able to take third party...
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Zoho Writer Offline with Editing
Zoho Writer was quick to release offline support using Gears, which allows you to carry read-only views of your data around when you were offline. This was just the first step in their offline support,...
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OfflineRest: One pattern for offline architecture
Kris Zyp has created OfflineRest, a new module in Dojo 1.2 that allows for a simple offline pattern to building your application. Dojo 1.2’s new dojox.rpc.OfflineRest module automates the local...
View ArticleGmail Offline is here (or coming soon for you!)
Gmail Offline has been an incredibly long wished for product feature and now it is coming (takes time to push it out to people and it will appear in Settings – Labs). This is a big deal. It uses Gears...
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Offline: What does it mean and why should I care?
[CC-A by Anomalous4] Michael Mahemoff has posted an extremely in-depth tutorial on HTML5Rocks on the subject of offline web apps: Introduction: The Meaning of “Offline” Application Cache and Offline...
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