Google halts development of Gears, makes room for HTML 5

Courtesy Engadget  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 21:57

Well, we've known for a while that Google was throwing considerable weight behind HTML 5 , and that one of the purposes of the markup language is to do away with plug-ins for Internet apps, so it makes sense that eventually Gears would go the way of the Dodo.

But so soon? Linus Upson, the man in charge of both the Chrome browser and Chrome OS engineering teams, has announced that the company is done developing the software....

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