7 messages in com.googlegroups.google-gearsI don't get it
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WildSignals31 May 2007 11:04 
GaRaGeD Style31 May 2007 11:27 
Christopher Jordan31 May 2007 11:28 
Slartibart31 May 2007 11:40 
anjanBacchu31 May 2007 12:18 
Ham02 Jun 2007 08:13 
Brad Neuberg03 Jun 2007 14:13 
Subject:I don't get it
From:WildSignals (wild@gmail.com)
Date:05/31/2007 11:04:32 AM
List:com.googlegroups.google-gears

I tried it out. I'm a developer. The big miracle is saving data to a user's PC????

So it's a reinvented a cookie, under a new standard? And require a plugin to be installed to do it? I don't see the use of this, it'll be a pain to deploy and only provides cookie functionality for the few people not connected.

Microsoft already tried this with XML data islands and it wasn't adopted because it's too cumbersome to resync the data later with an offline session. And if you do have the level of sophistication to build the sync ability, you don't really need this anyway.

Nice try. Make it work without a plugin and get Microsoft to adopt it in IE. Then maybe I'll be impressed.