News Google Gears moving to HTML 5

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/02/22/google-gears-moving-to-html-5/1

Google Gears, the search giant's offline caching technology, is being redeveloped using the HTML 5 specification - potentially making it easier for third parties to implement

 

Go Google. Nice to see at least one company attempting to be open with their tech, rather than closing everything off to 'corner the market' (which never happens). I think Google have the best long term strategy.

Gears is great, I can still work on google docs even when my crappy t-mobile data connection bombs out for the third time in five minutes. In fact, calendar and mail also get a good bashing on both the mobile and lappy with gears.

I hope it's a seamless transition, could really mess me up otherwise.

 

HTML5 cheesecake. That'll start pushing Microsoft to step-up their game and further help to stamp out IE6.

 

Ya I have been Beta the HTML 5 YouTube on Chrome and its really nice and man so much faster and just overall really nice.