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Gears is a browser add-on created by Google to provide you with easy ways to enhance a Web application by adding lots of features to it. When combined, these features can lead to offline functionality for an application. The API is very simple and the coding is JavaScript—it for any Web developer to learn it in a relatively short time.
Microsoft's next major version of Silverlight will probably provide out-of-the-browser runtime allowing .NET developer to create Silverlight desktop applications for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Google is going to release its own open source web browser called, Google Chrome.
Google announced 2 new ways to make your apps location aware yesterday. One's a web service that any web can take advantage the second is built into Google Gears, and runs on the mobile version of this plugin.
Qt is a powerful and surprisingly pervasive fit client technology that could become the next RIA solution for C++ programmers.
We were all wondering when Google was going to use Gears to take Google Docs offline. Well today is the day. I'm always a little bit surprised how long it takes some companies to implement their own technologies I'm always happy when they do. For I'm generally an early adopter so I win, but more importantly those underlying technologies improve for developers and everyone else.
Offline Web Applications and specifically AIR have been added to the Top 10 Technologies by MIT's Technology Review for 2008. The Technology review puts Adobe's AIR up against some other really cool technologies in their list.
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