"Gears ... enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser"
http://gears.google.com/ What you are asking for is beyond the mission of Gears. On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Caue C M Rego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, anyone bother to tell me why this is a browser extension, rather > than a program to go along with google pack? I mean, ok, it syncs with > web pages, but what if I don't use firefox (I definitely don't want to > use IE), or whatsoever I don't want to use a browser, just keep my > files synchronized, both for offline access and backup. Gears is a > great idea due to that! Plus it'd be great to combo with indexing > files and e-mails along with GDS, one more reason to be with gpack, > and it would be one more reason to use gears. :P > > I just don't get it. It seems so clumsy as an extension. There could > be an extension to be able to use the "cached" webpages in any given > browser, if it couldn't be done in another way (like emulating the OS > to be connected to internet when offline, doesn't seem too hard to > do). I can see it as an extension for THAT. But that's far to be the > main or best use for it, as I see it. > > Ok, maybe I'm dreaming a little too far ahead in time, but I hope > not. :) >
