Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#1

Post by wastedbrains » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:13 AM UTC

Gmail goes offline with Google Gears
gmailblog.blogspot.com

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#2

Post by mhartl » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:22 AM UTC

Google gmail goes off line with google gears (official google blog entry)

  s/gmail/Gmail
  s/off line/offline
  s/gears/Gears
  s/google/Google/g

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#3

Post by bprater » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:23 AM UTC

This must have been a real pain to implement; rumors of this have been floating around for years now.

Reader has had Gears for many moons now.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#4

Post by anuraggoel » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:30 AM UTC

Gears is great. "Flaky connection mode" is even better.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#5

Post by peregrine » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:36 AM UTC

I've been waiting for this for what seems line eons.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#6

Post by rokhayakebe » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:38 AM UTC

How about authentication?

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#7

Post by peregrine » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:38 AM UTC

bprater wrote: post #3

This must have been a real pain to implement; rumors of this have been floating around for years now. Reader has had Gears for many moons now.

Well to release gears to a application like reader or docs is easy cause your userbase is small. Gmail is a HUGE product with thousands of users and to even release something like that to labs you need complete protection of not only the data but also security for your DBs.

Reader and Docs were simply there to ensure the safety, if they went down due to security issues not that many people would be concerned.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#8

Post by icey » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:53 AM UTC

mhartl wrote: post #2

Google gmail goes off line with google gears (official google blog entry) s/gmail/Gmail s/off line/offline s/gears/Gears s/google/Google/g

Any chance we can do away with this kind of nit-picking now? I'd hate for it to get out of hand like it is at "that other site".

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#9

Post by dmix » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:54 AM UTC

Will it be getting autosync?

It always bothered me that I had to wait for Google Reader + Gears to download before I left the house.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

#10

Post by litewulf » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 12:55 AM UTC

peregrine wrote: post #7

bprater wrote: post #3

This must have been a real pain to implement; rumors of this have been floating around for years now. Reader has had Gears for many moons now.

Well to release gears to a application like reader or docs is easy cause your userbase is small. Gmail is a HUGE product with thousands of users and to even release something like that to labs you need complete protection of not only the data but also security for your DBs. Reader and Docs were simply there to ensure the safety, if they went down due to security issues not that many people would be concerned.

Also, I think with Gmail its a bit harder to decide how much to store on your local drive. I believe Reader just stores your unread stuff, but with email you often want to search or reference old messages, so its a substantially more complicated thing to deal with UI-wise.