Gmail goes offline with Google Gears • Hacker News Board

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by mooism2 » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:03 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

If you're going to nitpick over something, nitpick over the link being to the front page of the blog, not to the blog post.

(Maybe by the time people reading this tomorrow follow the link, Google will have posted something else.)

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:12 AM UTC

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Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by cglee » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:14 AM UTC

This is undoubtedly great work from a technical standpoint, but I see the real value here for other types of web apps. Since gmail already supports imap, you could've been managing your mail from a number of free mail clients offline. Just like how Google Maps touched off the ajax craze, this may be more about ushering in a new archetype of offline apps beyond email.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by Herring » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:21 AM UTC

icey wrote: post #8

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".

Besides it's rather pretentious & I only tolerate that from myself.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by jessep » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:35 AM UTC

anuraggoel wrote: post #4

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

I've been waiting for this feature for a really long time.

Reminds me of 2005 when I was waiting for them to come out with Calendar and waiting for someone to come out with easy video publishing. Was so happy to see these products get made.

The fact that Google controls all my data makes me less happy.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by jackowayed » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:40 AM UTC

Am I the only person who doesn't have this as an option?

I've had other Labs features for awhile, but I did a find of the Labs page for "offline", and even manually looked through the page, and found nothing!

I have gears installed even.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by mhartl » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:45 AM UTC

mooism2 wrote: post #11

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

If you're going to nitpick over something, nitpick over the link being to the front page of the blog, not to the blog post. (Maybe by the time people reading this tomorrow follow the link, Google will have posted something else.)

One error is a nit, but five in one article title? That's just sloppy. Proper punctuation, capitalization, and spelling are de rigueur here at Hacker News, and as one of its more wizened denizens I was doing my part to enforce the local culture. (It was also an implicit message to the editors to fix it---which they did.)

N.B. This is a record number of downmods for me (five as of this writing), and I find it alarming how something so trivial can do so much to distress my fragile primate brain.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by nirmal » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:46 AM UTC

This solves my biggest problem with managing my GOogle account over iMap. When I tried to set it up with Apple Mail I ran into the issue of each label being treated as a folder. This meant that for each label a duplicate of the message was created meaning that I could have up to 4 different copies of any single email.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by raquo » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:51 AM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #16

Am I the only person who doesn't have this as an option? I've had other Labs features for awhile, but I did a find of the Labs page for "offline", and even manually looked through the page, and found nothing! I have gears installed even.

It should be available to everyone this week; I don't have it either.

Re: Gmail goes offline with Google Gears

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 28, 2009, 1:52 AM UTC

icey wrote: post #8

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".

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