Ask HN: HTML5 offline access or Google Gears?

1 points by seanlinmt 16y ago ↗ HN

The question is ... is html5 offline access the same as google gears? i haven't compared the two but html5 offline access is based on google gears?

The scenario is this. I want to support offline access in my web app and I'm wondering whether I should built it using Google Gears.

My thoughts are - since Gears is being phased out in favour of HTML5, it might be a bad idea if I have to migrate the code later to HTML5 - may not be a problem if HTML5 is based on Gears. - Gears need to specifically get the user to install a plugin, HTML5 does not - Only some browsers support HTML5 offline access but Gears can run on 'all'

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gaiusparx 16y ago ↗

I don't think Gear is based on HTML5. It is better to go with HTML5.

timschwartz 16y ago ↗

even google is ditching gears, so use HTML5

kngspook 16y ago ↗

Most modern browsers support HTML5 -- probably more than there is gears support, honestly. Gears is end-of-life'd. Even Google Chrome doesn't support Gears at this point.

I'd go with HTML5.

seanlinmt 16y ago ↗

gears come preinstalled in chrome ... i guess html5 is based on gears .. the editor for the HTML5 draft is from Google so there will be a great similarity