Google Gears project manager, Ian - Fetter (Ian Fette) on Friday (February 19) announced that through the blog, Google will give up on the Gears browser plug-in project support for HTML5 as key development projects.
This development plan adjustments, Feith on Friday in the Gears API (application programming interface) related to the blog through an article entitled "Hello HTML5" (Hello HTML5) an article described as follows: "If you want to know the recent Gears's blog on why Bo does not appear many of the relevant text, this is because we have all the Gears-related R & D energy is transferred to the type of network, such as HTML5 standards of. Although we have not yet fully withdrawn Gears project, but this has been is not far off. "
Currently, Google has decided to focus on development of HTML5 project, this project will continue to offer similar to the Gears of the current function of many network applications, such as the same line to the offline capabilities. Of course the current situation, to use Gears application into HTML5 yet simple matter, but once the HTML5 technologies mature, Gears Of course, it will come to an end of the application.
According to Feith, said that Google will no longer invest resources to add new features, the future would no longer be available for Apple's Snow Leopard operating system, Gears plug-in support. However, in a certain period of time, will continue to Firefox and IE version of the Gears applications to provide some support for less.
At present, Google appears, Gears facing the main problem is that many of the innovative application and HTML5 is very similar, but Google has been actively developing HTML5 projects, so long as Google continuously to enhance the standards of the new network application functions as the focus, then the To add a new feature on Gears without much meaning. At present, a variety of browsers will be more and more for GMail and other services to provide more support in terms of offline functionality, so Gears is also faced with declining demand, that is an Google an important reason for making the above adjustments.
