offline applications

Google halts development of Gears, makes room for HTML 5

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?