Three Upcoming Online Web Technologies That Work Offline

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January 6, 2008 ||

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It is predicted that this year there will be a lot of ways to combine the offline and online entities.

Well, I can recollect one offline service I used to use which is Microsoft Outlook that would download all the mails so that I can read it later when I am offline.

A lot of such attempts have gained momentum this year.

Few of which include:

Google Gears Beta
Adobe Air and
Microsoft’s Silverlight.

Google launched Gears Beta Web Application ,which is an open source browser extension. It lets web applications provide offline services.

Advantages:

Database installation on client system
Uses data from local cache
Synchronizes data in the cache with online services.
During unavailability of network, synchronization is deferred.

To Install, Visit Google Gears Beta.

Adobe launched Air:

According to Adobe , Adobe Air is a cross-operating system runtime that allows web application developers to use their existing web development skills (HTML, Javascript, Adobe Flash®, Adobe Flex™, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop.
In other words, Adobe Air helps users to update their information to the url once they connect to the internet.

Advantages:

Installation files can be much smaller
Allows integration of the technologies together (Flash, HTML, PDF) on a much lower level than may otherwise be feasible.
Standardized and consistent security model for Adobe AIR applications and users.

To download Adobe Air, click here.

Microsoft launched Silverlight.:

Silverlight is termed as a rich plugin for browsers. Its focus is on animation, graphics and video playback capabilities of Windows Presentation Foundation.

Advantages:

Supports the display of high definition videos.
Microsoft to host silverlight media files and applications to stream large media files.

Read the overview and compatibility topics here:

Download from here :Microsoft Silverlight site

Tags: Adobe Air, Google Gears, Google Gears Beta, Microsoft Silverlight

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