Google Gears is the next quantum leap in web development since XMLHttpRequest, addressing three of the largest issues with javascript webside development:
* the lack of large scale (gigabyte range) client side storage,
* offline availability of online resources, and
* client side javascript freezing up the browser user interface due to its single-threaded design
Google Gears: Building Better AJAX applications
Presented by Aaron Boodman
AJAX applications are at the core of web development, providing both opportunities and challenges. We'll be discussing some of the ways we can address those challenges in this session. More details will be provided at Developer Day.
Aaron Boodman started life as a musician, a mistake he rectified early to the delight of his teachers and dormmates. Suddenly finding himself with more time on his hands, he taught himself to program and began experimenting with and writing about the collection of technologies that became known as "AJAX" many years later. His work from 2000-2001 continues to be referenced and reused today in modern JavaScript toolkits. More recently, he is the creator of Greasemonkey, a popular browser extension that allows people to "mash up" websites using JavaScript. At Google he works on experimental web technology, and occasionally lends a hand on UI for products like Gmail, Reader, and Blogger.
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