PubTools is a simple collection of JavaScript files that make it easy for content authors to work with Gears without having to delve into JavaScript themselves. PubTools includes two different libraries and features:

• PubTools Search - A JavaScript library that drops a client-side search engine into your page. You configure it with basic HTML + a list of URLs to index, and a search form that uses the local Gears full-text search abilities will appear in your page to quickly locally search over the documents in real time as a user types into the search field.

• PubTools Offline - A simple JavaScript library that makes it easy to take static content offline using just basic HTML added to your page, along with a utility bookmarklet for developers to quickly generate Gears manifest files for a given web page.

Please note that PubTools is not an official Google project or Gears API; it is a project Brad Neuberg created on his own to teach and help developers. The Gears team does not support this project. However, email Brad if you have questions, concerns, or patches while working with the code.