Gears future plan

rakesh

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Jan 5, 2010, 12:49:08 PM1/5/10

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Will some one from the official development team please tell us the
future of Gears? Browser supporting HTML5 is is very broad and vague,
especially when it comes to IE. To be specific, we are using the
multiple file select feature of gears, most of our user are hooked to
IE. If gears is gone, or not supported, what are we supposed to do?
flash? applet???

It would be nice if some one clears the dust over the gears
discontinue news so that people dependent on this toolkit can plan
accordingly.

http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/12/01/google-letting-gears-declares-html5-future/

rakesh

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Jan 13, 2010, 3:30:20 PM1/13/10

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no replies????

> http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/12/01/google-letting-gears-declar...

Jose Gonzalez

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Jan 13, 2010, 5:37:44 PM1/13/10

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I asked the same question and got the same response (or lack thereof) ... semms them gears froze up :-(

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rakesh

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Feb 2, 2010, 11:37:37 PM2/2/10

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some one need to speak up, ppl ... come on!!

> Jose.Gonza...@eCandidus.com

Luca Pascali

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Feb 3, 2010, 1:56:45 AM2/3/10

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rakesh wrote:
> some one need to speak up, ppl ... come on!!
>
>

I've just got this mail from Google:

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Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

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Google Inc.
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Mountain View, CA 94043

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My impression is that G is investing in HTML5 rather than Gears and it
is dumping (finally) older version of IE.

For job I've the same problem about users with IE. The only solution now
is to tell them: "Upgrade your browser. IE6 is definetly too old. Even
Google does not support it (or it will phase out it very soon)". Up to
now I wrote web sites 3 times (IE6, IE7, standard-compliant browsers).

Even Youtube is moving toward HTML5 and dumping flash (at least for
videos, I don't know for other functionalities).