[development] Google Gears

[Robert Douglass]

Perhaps it could be used to integrate with desktop apps, since both the 
desktop app and the web app would have direct access to local storage. 
Often times importing/exporting data from these things is a multi-step 
process, and this could be a "digestion" layer where the user prepares 
data (possibly offline) and then synchronizes with the web app.

adrian rossouw wrote:
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> On 31 May 2007, at 11:05 AM, Victor Kane wrote:
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>> use case is manage content, prepare a new edition of a site all ready 
>> to synchronize with on line edition...
> except that all the pages used to manage content are generated and 
> validated via php.
>
> we'd have to move that all to the javascript layer.