Word around the web is that Google is preparing to launch an offline version of Google Docs through Google Gears, a rumor which has been fueled even more now by what look to be screenshots of Google Docs in offline mode. To date, the only official integration for Google Gears is Reader. Google Blogoscoped, however, is claiming that Google Docs now has partial offline access.
Google Gears, which was announced last May at the company’s annual Developer Day, is a browser extension for Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Firefox 1.5+ which enables web applications to provide offline functionality through JavaScript APIs.
The screenshots over at Blogoscoped look pretty convincing, and it appears that Google is at least working on getting more of their tools to work with Google Gears. For the time being, however, it appears that this Google Docs offline functionality is just being tested and is in the very early stages of integration.
Looking forward to it :)
I hope they finish it before I’m dragged kicking and screaming into Office 2007!
I heard about it. This suspect is nice to know honestly. It encouraged me to do more with Google, because of the fact it is free and it has such a lot of tools you can use free.
Matt cutt have asked recently for suggestions of features to add with Gmail. I have asked that why do not google issue a seperate platform independent email client which removes trouble of working on same email data under windows, linux and mac.
After hearing this rumor, “I am feeling lucky” because it is looking like that google is trying to replace office suite itself by launching their own version and ya, there is also rumor that google is developing it’s own operating system.
Hope all these rumors should be true so that get more better searchable products.
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