Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Gears 0.3 Released, and Google I/O videos on Ajax related content available
Category: Ajax
, GWT, Gears, Google, JavaScript, Presentation
Some good stuff came out from my employer. First, we have the Gears 0.3 release which includes support for Firefox 3! I have been using it for awhile, and it has been great. The team wanted to get it out before the Firefox 3 launch (planned for June 17th). A plugin like Gears can get deep into browser internals, so it is a challenge to keep up to date as APIs change in beta releases, so it is great to be out there now and I we will take a close look at the final release!
As well as Firefox 3 support, Gears 0.3 includes:
- Ability to create desktop shortcuts with a snippet of JavaScript
- Improved support for customizing the installation flow and permission dialog
- Better support for sending complex objects to workers
- Detailed progress events for managed resource store updates
- And more…
Then, all of the videos from Google I/O sessions have been published.
I put together a playlist that includes Ajax and Gears related content:
Check out the great talks such as:
Gears
- Improving Browsers in New Ways: Gears++
- Google Gears for Mobile
- HTML 5, Brought to You by Gears
- Gears and MySpace - Search on the Client
- Taking Large-Scale Applications Offline
- Gears Case Studies
GWT
- Using GWT to Build a Diagramming Tool
- GWT and Client-Server Communication
- GWT Extreme by Ray Cromwell
- JavaScript and DOM Programming in GWT
- Resource Bundles and Linkers in GWT
- Deferred Binding with GWT
General Ajax
- Alex Russell on “Can We Get There from Here?”
- Spice up Your Apps with Google AJAX APIs
- Yours truly, Dion and Ben, State of Ajax: The Universe Is Expanding
- Steve Yegge on Server Side JavaScript
Wow, a lot of material there!
Just tried to install it and failed. When will a 64b Linux version be ready?
Ditto to jonsmirl.
Ooof, can you just quickly remove the ability to create desktop shortcuts, before any software comes to depend on it? PLEASE?
Please, does it replace the JavaScript engine that’s in IE6?
By that, I mean (of course), does the WorkerPool still use IE6’s JScript? Or has a better JavaScript interpreter been added?
GWT Extreme by Ray Cromwell Really change the way a look at GWT
I perfer Firefox to this rubbish, as was posted we could not get it to install.