Gmail Finally Goes Offline with Google Gears
PaulSpoerry | January 28, 2009
LifeHacker is reporting that Google is finally enabling Google Gears support in GMail. The first question you might ask is “what the heck is Google Gears”? Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:
Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop
Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance
So when Gears is enabled you can access your Gmail from your browser any time… even when you’re not online! Essentially, Offline Gmail uses Google Gears to download all (ok not ALL, but MOST) of your email to your desktop. When you use Gmail in offline mode it works exactly the same as using it normally—except that when offline mode is enabled in your browser, Gmail is that much faster. When you compose an email in offline mode they get put in your outbox, and those emails are automatically sent once you’re back online.
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