{"id":552432,"date":"2007-05-31T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552432-google-goes-offline.html"},"modified":"2007-05-31T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T13:12:08","slug":"google-goes-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552432-google-goes-offline.html","title":{"rendered":"Google goes offline"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s most popular internet search engine introduced the Google Gears Web browser extension at the opening of Google Developer Day 2007 in Sydney, Australia. <\/font><\/p>\n

Google’s offering provides developers with a free tool to make web-based applications more appealing and comes as a threat to the Microsoft empire, which is built on sales of software installed on people’s computers. <\/font><\/p>\n

"With Google Gears we’re tackling a key limitation of the browser in order to make it a stronger platform for deploying all types of applications and enabling a better user experience in the cloud," Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n

"We believe strongly in the power of the community to stretch this new technology to the limits of what’s possible and ultimately emerge with an open standard that benefits everyone." <\/font><\/p>\n

The browser extension downloads enough data to a computer to enable people to continue using web-based programs such as e-mail, calendars, or word processing even while on flights or otherwise cut off from the internet. <\/font><\/p>\n

"This announcement is a significant step forward for web applications," said Brendan Eich, chief technical officer at Mozilla Corporation which makes the FireFox Internet browser. <\/font><\/p>\n

Google Gears is open-source, meaning developers are free to adapt it as they wish, and the Mountain View, California-based company said it will work with other firms to develop standards for offline functionality. <\/font><\/p>\n

"We’re very excited to be collaborating with Google to move the industry forward to a standard cross-platform, cross-browser local storage capability," said Adobe vice president Kevin Lynch. <\/font><\/p>\n

Google expects the new technology to increase the popularity of its host of web-based applications but said its intent in releasing the open-source technology is to enhance all programs of that type. <\/font><\/p>\n

A trend away from downloading software onto personal computers and toward using applications hosted and maintained online is considered a defining characteristic of "Web 2.0," the latest iteration of internet life.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Google on Thursday provided software developers with technology to keep online applications like e-mail running on computers even if internet connections are dropped, unavailable or unreliable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}