Google Gears usage examples

Lately there has been a paradigm change on how everyone looks at web application where more and more emphases is being made on making client more intelligent by using client side resources and leaving the server implementation lean and thin.

This has been done using various techniques like

• Ajax Enabling
• Less number of page refresh and only loading the data when required
• Using JavaScript frameworks
• Data Push technique

Now more and more vendors like adobe (Apollo), Microsoft (silverlight) & Google (Google gears) have come up with techniques to do more and more client side computing using their tools/framework that extend the browser capability to perform more computing on client/browser side, e.g.

• Enabling Web Application to run in Offline mode
• Client side database support
• Access to disk i/o in client side
• Event notification for offline and online mode
• Advanced GUI API and richer support for graphics

In this section of the site I am going to focus on Google Gears and how it can be used in various web application development situations with some live examples. Read more about google gear

Google Gears - Example

• loading tables - Example demonstrating how database tables’ can be loaded locally using Google gear while providing visual feedback to the user.