Google Gears for Safari on Mac OS X released
Posted on | September 17, 2008 |
Google announced the release of its OpenSource Gears browser platform for Safari on the Mac platform. Gears for Safari will now allow more powerful web applications by enabling web apps to store data in searchable database locally and run javascript more efficiently.
After installation, Gears will create a local database at ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Google Gears. Google Gears requires the web application developers to enable the support for Gears platform, hence it doesnt effect your favourite web app if its not Gears enabled yet. However the list of applications supporting Gears is increasing day by day. Among the popular services that already work on Gears are Google docs offline, Google Reader, Youtube’s uploader, Zoho Office suite and Wordpress to an extent.
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