Whats New With Gears Brownbag
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What’s New With Google Gears Brown Bag Ben Lisbakken Brad Neuberg 1 Friday, April 11, 2008
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Brad Neuberg gave a brownbag discussion at Google on what's new with Gears. Gears is an open source plugin that hooks into contemporary browsers and which exposes new functionality, such as a local database, JavaScript threads, offline, secure cross-domain mashups, client-side search, and more.
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What’s New With Google
Gears Brown Bag
Ben LisbakkenBrad Neuberg
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Gears is more than offline...2Friday, April 11, 2008
The Web is the platform of today, and of the future
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It takes too long to update the Web4Friday, April 11, 2008
Gears: Open Source Update Mechanism for the Web
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Existing Pieces
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Google Gears for Mobile
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DesktopShortcuts
var desktop = google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop');desktop.createShortcut("Test Application", "http://www.test.com/index.html", {"16x16": "http://www.test.com/icon16x16.png", "32x32": "http://www.test.com/icon32x32.png", "48x48": "http://www.test.com/icon48x48.png", "128x128": "http://www.test.com/icon128x128.png"});
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Cross Domain Web Services
• Future of web is mashups
• Calling services (and embedding components) from across the web
• Currently insecure (cookie issues, XSS attacks, etc.)
• Third party services can hijack page
• Hard, buggy, and slow
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Cross Domain Workers
• Web-sites can expose APIs callable by third-parties
• Works by messaging between sites
• Gears mediates communication inside the browser
• No cookies are sent
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* (XHR can be called from workers)
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Dojo Storage
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PubTools
• Super easy way to take static content offline in 5 minutes
• Just link in a JavaScript library and add a little bit of HTML to page
• Example
• Get the bookmarklet
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Location API
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