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Re:Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for W... by tvon on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:12PM (#1319152)
Client-side HTML5 databases have supplanted gears.
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Re:Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for W... by ube on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:41PM (#1319244)
Fair enough - so how do I use google docs when I'm offline?

Alternatively, would you have suggestions on some other service that provides similar doc capability with html5 database?

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Re:Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for W... by tvon on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @04:52PM (#1319278)
Good question(s), I was just relaying the decision Google made:

http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html

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Re:Pedal to the Chrome metal: Our fastest beta to date for W... by ube on Tuesday May 04, 2010 @05:05PM (#1319329)
Thanks...that makes total sense. I need to (sadly) give google gears the boot.
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