I have been trying to work through the Gears API tutorial at: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/tutorial.html
When I go to "go_offline.html", the Status Message says "You must install Gears first." I had already installed Gears. When I follow the "Install Gears" link, it says Gears is installed. The demonstration works correctly when I "cheat" and follow the link directly on the tutorial page, which goes to: http://code.google.com/apis/gears/tutorials/go_offline.html I have tried putting the files on three different servers I have access to (one was localhost). I have tried it through IE, FireFox, and Chrome. I have tried renaming the manifest file (and of course changing the reference to it in "go_offline.js". I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Gears (multiple times). I have looked very carefully for any typos, any funny characters in the paths, etc. It seems if any of these were the problem, I would get an error. The best I can see, this happens at the line: if (window.google && google.gears) I have very obnoxious script debuggers, which scarcely let any webpage through without complaint. They don't catch any errors. I'm stumped! Any ideas?
