What is the Gears API?
Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to web browsers.
Features
Gears modules include:
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LocalServer Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally |
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Database Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database |
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WorkerPool Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously |
New in Gears 0.3
The latest version of Gears adds:
- The ability to create desktop shortcuts
- Detailed status callbacks for ManangedResourceStore
- Support for sending complex objects to WorkerPools using
sendMessage() - Support for Firefox 3
More details about the improvements in 0.3 can be found on our API history page.