Whats New With Gears Brownbag

Slide 1: What’s New With Google Gears Brown Bag Ben Lisbakken Brad Neuberg Friday, April 11, 2008 1

Slide 2: Gears is more than offline... Friday, April 11, 2008 2

Slide 3: The Web is the platform of today, and of the future Friday, April 11, 2008 3

Slide 4: It takes too long to update the Web Friday, April 11, 2008 4

Slide 5: Gears: Open Source Update Mechanism for the Web Friday, April 11, 2008 5

Slide 6: Existing Pieces Friday, April 11, 2008 6

Slide 7: Google Gears for Mobile Friday, April 11, 2008 7

Slide 8: Desktop Shortcuts var desktop = google.gears.factory.create('beta.desktop'); desktop.createShortcut("Test Application", "http://www.test.com/index.html", {"16x16": "http://www.test.com/icon16x16.png", "32x32": "http://www.test.com/icon32x32.png", "48x48": "http://www.test.com/icon48x48.png", "128x128": "http://www.test.com/icon128x128.png"}); Friday, April 11, 2008 8

Slide 9: Cross Domain Web Services • Future of web is mashups • Calling services (and embedding components) from across the web • Currently insecure (cookie issues, XSS attacks, etc.) • Third party services can hijack page • Hard, buggy, and slow Friday, April 11, 2008 9

Slide 10: Cross Domain Workers • Web-sites can expose APIs callable by third- parties • Works by messaging between sites • Gears mediates communication inside the browser • No cookies are sent Friday, April 11, 2008 10

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Slide 13: * (XHR can be called from workers) Friday, April 11, 2008 13

Slide 14: Dojo Storage Friday, April 11, 2008 14

Slide 15: PubTools • Super easy way to take static content offline in 5 minutes • Just link in a JavaScript library and add a little bit of HTML to page • Example • Get the bookmarklet Friday, April 11, 2008 15

Slide 16: Location API Friday, April 11, 2008 16