Technical Ramblings

At the Google Developer Day. Sitting in the Google Gears session: it’s pretty frickin cool. I just created an OpenLayers Map, wrote 15 lines of code, and that page will now load, even when I’m online.

Other things it does:

• WorkerPool — run code in the background in your browser. Demoing finding prime quadruplets: user interface continues to be responsive — can run multiples at the same time, and user experience is not bad. (Oh man, how I wish this were  built in by default.)
• Storage — local storage in a sqlite database, including full text search: millions of documents, working on fts3, which will be 10s of millions.
• Local server — caches data for offline use. 

There are tons of limitations — very early release — but it’s available for Firefox and IE, and can be built for Safari.

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