O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com site has the first part in a new series documenting The Power of Google Gears. Part one outlines the database portion of the Google Gears API while future tutorials will show you how to use the WorkerPool and LocalServer API’s. This is just another piece of superb tech writing from ONLamp.com and O’Reilly, and timely too, as everybody is interested in the details of the Google Gears API.
The author of the article claims that Google Gears fills a need we have for a way to create the small percentage of desktop applications that we want to have work off-line as well. If you play with Google Gears at all you’ll know what he’s talking about–there are similarities that Google Gears has with Ajax that basically enable you to make a webpage feel more like a desktop app.
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I was there in Sydney when Gears was first announced. The WorkerPool stuff was actually pretty mind blowing when it was first demo’ed. JavaScript executing things in parallel? Crazy!
Suitably impressed though.
So much so, that I hugged Aaron Boodman. Twice.