I am working on a project called "Namesets" which uses html for user interaction, javascript for automation and structured words for content. These three work together as a digital machine to produce an array of names, each representing an entity in the physical world. Each entity also has an array of name/value pairs that identify its physical, financial and temporal parameters. Currently I convert these arrays into comma separated strings and write them to a browser window, from where they are copied/pasted into a text file for reuse. These records belong to the client and are stored locally.
I learnt sufficient html + Javascript to make this work. I also picked up parts of the Ruby API so that I could have it interact with Google's Sketchup. So I was wondering if I could do something similar with Google's Gears. The first question of course is whether Gears is really applicable to the data storage I have described. There is a 3.5min video clip introducing Namesets at http://sites.google.com/site/namesets/, together with more detail and commentary. I would be very grateful for any guidance. Chris Glasier
