Videos tagged with Google Gears

The Zoho crew came in to chat about their new release of Zoho Mail which works offline using Gears! Brad discusses the architecture and work behind it.

We talk to some engineers who have been working on releasing the Blogger JavaScript library, and some examples that use the library. We walk through one of these examples, Blog.gears, that shows how to create an offline Blogger client using Google Gears. Developer's Guide blog.gears sample app All JavaScript samples  

An interview with the Zoho team on their offline announcement and their thoughts on Google Gears. The team talks about how they use Gears now, what is in the works, and how they are contributing to the open source project.

Chris Prince, engineer on the Gears team, sat down to talk to us about the new features in the 0.2 developer release. Chris talks about the new Workerpool, Cross-origin API, and the new HttpRequest and Timer APIs.

If you've ever tried coding up a mobile client application, you've probably noticed that the huge variety of mobile operating systems makes it tough to build rich applications that work on every device. But what if developers could deploy applications directly to mobile browsers rather than develop native applications? Google Gears for Mobile is a mobile browser extension for creating rich web ...

Come see how Gears can be used to create a client-side search engine plugged right into your web page! Learn how to add this functionality to your own web site, then dive deep to see how Gears and the Dojo toolkit were combined to create this client-side search engine. Attendees should have experience with JavaScript and a basic understanding of Gears. Brad Neuberg (Google)

This talk presents two case studies on Gears in the wild. Zoho offline with Gears First, you will hear first hand experience from one of the first implementors of Gears. Raju Vegesna, of Zoho, will discuss Why we chose Gears How we implemented this for Zoho Apps (architecture etc) for both Desktop & Mobile gears Workarounds, gotchas & what we expect going forward in Gears What's next on...

Building offline applications can certainly be a challenge. But what happens when you have to scale the application to millions of users, continuously support regular application upgrades seamlessly, integrate with other offline apps, and handle your servers living in a modern-day production environment? Google Docs Offline was released in April to millions of users and had to handle all of the...

MySpace does not have particular ceilings on how much data a user can accrue, including relational data linking that user with others. MySpace is exploring the use of Google Gears to provide features for users that have a considerable amount of data to churn through. Join us to see some areas we've explored and hear a detailed technical discussion about one particular feature--adding search to ...

HTML5 is a new set of proposed extensions to HTML that radically improve the capabilities of web applications. However, without implementations in a majority of browsers, these proposals remain just that, and out of reach for developers. The Gears mission is to begin implementing these APIs today, across as many browsers as possible, as quickly as possible. In this talk, I'll explain why we are...