Still no Gears on Google Chrome for Linux nor 64-bit Firefox...

[hackel]

"What gives?" is all I can say... Running Chrome 4.0.249.30, I still
get the message "Offline Mail is not supported by your browser" when
trying to enable the feature in Gmail. This is quite frustrating.
Also the fact that 64-bit Gears for Firefox works just fine and you
continue to drag your feet about releasing it yourself, relying on 3rd-
party hacks to make it work. When will you fix this problem?

[Victor Hooi]

heya,

You know, I have to agree.

It all seems a bit like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand
is doing.

I know, it's been said before that Gears is just a hack, and HTML5 is
the way to go, but there doesn't seem to have been any concrete
announcement or roadmap on when that's happening with any of Google's
flagship apps. So it's like the Gears people are saying, "oh, it's
fine that we don't support Linux, we'll be using HTML5 soon", and the
Apps people are like "oh, we support Gears only, at this point in
time".

And in the meanttime, Firefox 64-bit Linux still doesn't have proper
Gears support (http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=335),
and Chromium on Linux doesn't have proper Gears support (http://
code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443), and it's quite
obvious from both those issues that there's a lot of support for a
proper solution for either one.

Hence, things like say, drag-and-drop on Wave don't work properly, nor
does Gmail offline, or any other apps that use Gears at all, really.

Cheers,
Victor

[dcunited]

I have been contemplating an extension that would implement some of
the gears api on chrome specifically for offline support. Any
interest in this?
-dcunited

On Dec 31 2009, 11:59 am, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> heya,
>
> You know, I have to agree.
>
> It all seems a bit like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand
> is doing.
>
> I know, it's been said before that Gears is just a hack, and HTML5 is
> the way to go, but there doesn't seem to have been any concrete
> announcement or roadmap on when that's happening with any of Google's
> flagship apps. So it's like the Gears people are saying, "oh, it's

> fine that we don't supportLinux, we'll be using HTML5 soon", and the

> Apps people are like "oh, we support Gears only, at this point in
> time".
>

> And in the meanttime, Firefox 64-bitLinuxstill doesn't have proper
> Gears support (http://code.google.com/p/gears/issues/detail?id=335),
> and Chromium onLinuxdoesn't have proper Gears support (http://

> code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=17443), and it's quite
> obvious from both those issues that there's a lot of support for a
> proper solution for either one.
>
> Hence, things like say, drag-and-drop on Wave don't work properly, nor
> does Gmail offline, or any other apps that use Gears at all, really.
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>
> On Dec 19 2009, 4:36 am, hackel <hac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>

> > "What gives?" is all I can say...  RunningChrome4.0.249.30, I still