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Google removes Gears from Chrome, prepares offline access for Google Docs
Google Gears was launched back in 2007 -- before Google Chrome, and back when web apps were still in their early stages -- as a way for web app developers to allow offline access to documents. Gears never really caught on, and was eventually replaced by standards-based solutions. Now, Google has announced that it's finally removing support for the Gears plugin from Chrome.With Google now in charge of its own browser, there's no longer a reason to hack together a plugin for offline access to documents. The removal of Gears is a strong hint that Google's promised offline access for its own Google Docs -- scheduled for "early 2011" -- is almost here.
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Subscribe to commentsNickMar 15th 2011 5:32PM
Now they need to hurry to hell up to reimplement offline support for Docs, Gmail and Calendar.
HexDSLMar 16th 2011 5:05AM
I use google docs ALLOT and this would be aq fantastic update, i would also like the ability to use a page by page view