Google Gears for Offline Web Application Support

Google have announced the release of Google Gears, a browser extension and set of Javascript libraries for offline web application support. Supported browsers are Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Firefox 1.5+.

The library provides support for:

• Storing and serving application resources locally
• Storing data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
• Running Javascript asynchronously

Google Reader now has support for offline usage using Google Gears.

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