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Standards groups are difficult and slow-moving. But when the extension of the browsers can do, they proved to be a handful of features than Google to bring its gear on the Web faster.

So it is no surprise that Google Gears spin the project after hiring over the last year and a half, to remove the software completely, it is governed by the laws of the Chrome browser.

"It is finally time for the PlayNow ™ gear," said Aaron Boodman Gears, Member of the group in a blog post. "Not the Gears on the April and later browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer 9 4 is not supported. We also have a Gears Chrome Chrome 12. "

Google launched with much fanfare to the gear, the open-source Project, 2007. The title property is the ability to get Web applications work offline--in other words, when the network connection is down and the examples were in Google Docs, and Gmail.

But only a few other Web developers, such as Zoho, WordPress and iStockphoto, dabbled with gear and Google decided to concentrate on the lifting of the fishing gear characteristics of Web browsers rather than through its own standards instead of the snap-in.

One thing is very different kinds of information about the browser landscape now compared to in 2007: Google is a Web browser. When the Gears were introduced, the snap-in to other browsers was around for the best Google could do to advance the Web program of the state of the art. Now, Chrome, and it has a roppakaupalla your own vehicle for new Web sites for the placing on the market. Accounts for about 10% of the chrome browser, anywhere in the world, today, much more effective vehicle for the presentation of the Web gear than ever was--in particular because the browser rivals also are adding to the many features of fishing gear.

When it comes to Offline support, the key idea is to provide a mechanism to store the data in the browser. Several of these are available or nearly so, including: the HTML5 cache memory. Another important issue, which is catching on is IndexedDB. Mozilla and Microsoft, in its upper two browser makers and technology be considered a competitor IndexedDB is called the Web SQL database.

These technologies are likely to have Google returns Google docs offline access, the property, it promised to arrive in the "early in the year 2011."

The writing has been on the wall on the gear, because Google Gears, HTML5 standards announced in December 2009 the hope. But its influence still lives on as the only offline data storage methods.

A handful of shows with Boodman pointed to, which are on the way into Web standards features:

• Web workers to help the browser perform several tasks at once, in JavaScript, including background processes, Web application, the user retains the hiring interface and taking advantage of Multicore inter-operational processors to the developers.

• File interface, which adds a better file handling features to Web browsers, for example, people are called to send the video to the rental of the BLOB: t, so 500 MB, the file transfer is a network of separate pieces derailed flaky.

• Geolocation using browser-delivered by the time the user's rights--to tell the Web application on the user's physical location. It will help, search for a contact on the map, for example.

• Notifications let the produce so widely used, email, instant messages and other communications programs pop-up Windows sorts the Web applications.

These standards are in various stages of the implementation of the browsers right now, but they all target the browser makers is the flat-rate aid. Finally, the success of the Gears was probably more than the error.