Comments on: Gears as a bleeding-edge HTML 5 implementation

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:23:15 +0000

This is a great article. We’ve been developing a web app for a few months now (our initial round of beta invites go out July 31, so make sure to visit us at http://bloomapps.com to get a code) – and whether to build support for Gears or try to support Firefox 3.5 and Safari 4, to avoid a plugin, was something we debated back and forth early on. In fact, we still talk about it.

It’s fascinating what’s going on right now — offline support in particular. I know our app couldn’t live without it.

Chris from Bloom Apps

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:36:12 +0000

In the past, did the girl used to be topless?

By: JP

JP — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:15:00 +0000

I think that the danger, HTML5 co-opting the need for Gears.

Alos, I imagine the zip going up so the image is just fine by me.

By: João Costa

João Costa — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:51:28 +0000

I agree with you when you say that Gears can be seen as a HTML 5 implementation. But if HTML5 specs get adopted by all the major browsers, what will happen to Gears? And there is much more in HTML5 than just offline web applications.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:42:27 +0000

I agree … I’d put “Future” at the top and “Past” at the bottom, since I see the arrows as indicating the direction of the zip.

By: Philipp Lenssen

Philipp Lenssen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:50:30 +0000

(Ambiguous slide — if you move the zip in the direction of “future”, HTML5 and Gears do not converge as your post suggests, but become more separated. Of course, the opposite interpretation is possible too.)