Google Gears, what Apollo (Edit) didnt miss
-EDIT – well APollo will have SQLLite (see davids comments below), which makes this post kinda pointless now, but at least you know
First off Google has released their plugin Google Gears which allows people to use the web browser offline. So now you can use gmail offline, google reader etc. The big vision for Google apps comes into sight, and surely Microsoft is begining to worry about things.
Anyway how does this relate to Apollo? Well in my opinion (as little weight as that holds) Google has done something that Adobe missed the mark on big time. A local database implementation. Think of all the things you want to with your rich Internet Application. Most (or at least a lot) revolve around some sort of database interaction. I would have thought this a feature that at least rated up there.
With SqlLite being file based, cross platform, and free (as in beer), I would have seen this as the perfect option. Google seems to have agreed. The Apollo team could have included it, but choose not to. Anyone from Adobe care to comment?
And granted Google gears has the browser caching system to hinge off for development, I guess I will have to wait to see what happens with Apollo coming out of Alpha before I can winge and moan too much.
My famous two cents.
I’m a little confused on how you can make comment on what will and what won’t be included in the Apollo runtime? To my knowledge the Alpha on Labs is not feature complete.
Cheers
Gareth.
Just Saw on Eric’s site that if the Webkit browser (the browser in apollo) gets this then there will no doubt be a hack to use the features of Google Gears from within Apollo. -
http://www.ericd.net/
Gareth – which is why I said “I guess I will have to wait to see what happens with Apollo coming out of Alpha before I can winge and moan too much”, but from all accounts nothing has been mentioned, so I used the oportunity to make my point known.
According to this
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Stewart/?p=399
“The other cool thing about this announcement is the information that the Apollo team has been simultaneously working on an embedded database in Apollo. The embedded database will be a part of the public beta for Apollo that is coming soon”
Maybe I’m missing something, but it sounds like you’re not yet aware that this local SQLite access will be in Apollo?
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/05/google_gears.cfm
jd/adobe
Hi,
Apollo will have an embedded SQL Lite DB too. We are working with Google to align the APIs
-David
David – thats the best news I have heard today
thankyou.
JD – nope didnt know that. Ah well, now lots of people will know as they get drawn in by the provokative and incorrect post title
Cool, I like happy endings.
It looks like an interesting development. If you get into the project and have thoughts, drop a line here, okay?
tx, jd