Google Phasing Out Gears For HTML5

Kelson writes "Have you noticed that there haven't been many updates to Gears in a while? That's because Google has decided to focus instead on similar capabilities in the emerging HTML5 standard: local storage, database, workers and location cover similar functionality, but natively in the web browser. Of course, since Gears and HTML APIs aren't exactly the same, it's not a simple drop-in replacement, so they'll continue supporting the current version of Gears in Firefox and Internet Explorer. I guess this means the long-anticipated Gears support for 64-bit Firefox on Linux and Opera are moot."pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/02/20/0231227/Google-Phasing-Out-Gears-For-HTML5?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/02/20/0231227"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/02/20/0231227/Google-Phasing-Out-Gears-For-HTML5?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/huWuCoD1ew8tThbwOjgFSenvHzU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/huWuCoD1ew8tThbwOjgFSenvHzU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/huWuCoD1ew8tThbwOjgFSenvHzU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/huWuCoD1ew8tThbwOjgFSenvHzU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/cGo2U0UUvFA" height="1" width="1"/

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