Treffer: These Gears Bring You the Web…Offline!

The article focuses on the new Google Gears, a new browser-based technology that would allow for offline usage of the Web applications, released by Google Inc. under the New BSD license in the U.S. It composes of three components including a local Web server to cache and serve applications without requiring contact with the Internet, a SQLite database to add, update, and delete data needed by the Web application, and a worker thread pool, which enables Javascript to run jobs or transfer data as a background task, thus preventing the browser from appearing to hang. It infers that Google Gears is an exciting new technology, which promises to take the Web in a huge variety of cool new directions.