Google Gears API

What is the Google Gears API?

Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline.

Features

Google Gears extends browsers to enable richer web applications. Gears modules include:

	LocalServer Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
	Database Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
	WorkerPool Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously

New in Gears 0.2

The latest version of Gears adds:

• Support for Windows Mobile
• HTTP requests and timers for workers.
• Improved support for handling errors in workers.
• Ability to load workers from a URL, even cross-domain URLs. You can use this with allowCrossOrigin() to create secure mashups without iframes.

More details about the improvements in 0.2 can be found on our API history page.