Whats New With Gears Brownbag

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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