Google Gears - local store and remote synchronization
SlowBoatSam
open source project (http://gears.google.com/) that allows for local
storage and remote synchronization of web pages. Includes a database
and off-line server api.
Dave Bolton
I went to the Google Developer Day in Sydney yesterday. We were lucky
enough to have Aaron Boodman, creator of GreaseMonkey, as the first
presenter and launcher of "Google Gears". It was a great display, and
my mind immediately thought of TiddlyWiki (and in particular MonkeyGTD
which is based on TiddlyWiki).
The two things that I think are particularly pertinent are obviously
the transparent online/offline capabilities (cross browser compatible)
and the threading capabilities.
The online/offline capabilities are already partially catered for in
TiddlyWiki, since every edit is just a change to the DOM, and the can
be saved to a single file and then uploaded to a web server at a later
date. But with Google Gears I believe that this could be totally
transparent, and we wouldn't need an explicit "upload" stage, the
synching would be handled by the framework.
The threading capabilities mean we could work on very large files
without having our javascript stop the responsiveness of the browser.
Interesting huh? I've yet to look into this in great detail, but I
dare say some of this could be very useful for TiddlyWiki and its
derivatives.
Cheers,
Dave
Dave Bolton
FND
application to handle the sync'ing.
If I'm not mistaken that means you'll lose some of TW's portability,
which is one of its major advantages...
Not that this wasn't an interesting development, but personally, I'm not
too excited about it right now.
-- F.
Jeremy Ruston
http://jermolene.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/tiddlygears/
Interesting stuff.
Cheers
Jeremy
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Jeremy Ruston
mailto:jer...@osmosoft.com
http://www.tiddlywiki.com