Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari.

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Post by pinstriped_dude » Sat, Feb 20, 2010, 11:35 PM UTC

Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari.
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Re: Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari.

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Post by nirmal » Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 12:21 AM UTC

Before Chrome, I was a heavy Safari user. I'm rather happy that they are shifting resources away from Gears towards standard compliance. Then maybe those who need the power of Gears can stop running Safari in 32-bit mode. I'm also excited about what this means for offline GMail and Mailplane.

Gears Team Blog post on the matter: http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html

Re: Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari.

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Post by grinich » Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 3:48 AM UTC

A win for HTML5.

Re: Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari.

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Post by blueag » Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 6:24 AM UTC

Google is sticking it to Apple.

Re: Google Officially Deadpools Gears For Safari.

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Sun, Feb 21, 2010, 10:54 AM UTC

This is a good move just because there is so much confusion caused by Gears existing. People seem to be going out of their way to misunderstand that Gears is implementing bleeding edge HTML5 features in a way that can be added to other browsers.

The only browser that needs such a plugin is IE, and Chrome frame now fills that same gap.