I hope that Google's announcement that it will drop its own Gears technology is more than a leap of faith that HTML 5 will be an effective replacement. And what do the people who have developed on top of Gears do in the meantime? Unfortunately, the official Gears discussion group doesn't contain any answers for users who have posed that question.
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As we were discussing, it appears to me that Google will continue to support Google Gears until HTML 5 is broadly rolled out (2012?) - the best source I found was this LA Times blog post, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/google-gears.html . One other way to think about it: Google Reader and Google Docs, both fairly major products, make full use of Google Gears - until HTML 5 is in a vast majority of browsers, Google will either have to support Gears or extensively redevelop their own products. (Google Wave and parts of Picassa and GMail Offline also use Gears).
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Posted by: Zachary Reiss-Davis | 12/08/2009 at 05:13 PM
Ouch! When support for a foundational tool is dropped, that's never good news. When a URL shortening service shut down awhile ago, everyone panicked.
It looks like Google is telling Developers to stop planning on using Gears, but if they already have then Google will carry them up until HTML 5 becomes available. The key open question will be how long Google support for Gears continues after HTML 5 comes out...
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Posted by: Dr. Jim Anderson | 12/11/2009 at 07:00 AM