Word from the LA Times is that Google plans to phase out its Gears plug-in in favour of HTML 5 when it comes to augmenting browser abilities. The precise details of its enthusiasm for the plug-in aren't clear yet, but the general trajectory is no surprise.
Google, along with Mozilla, Opera, Apple and some other allies, has been agitating for features that can make browsers and the web into a more powerful foundation for websites and web applications. Gears was an early Google effort in this area.
But Gears emerged in 2007 — back before Google released a browser of its own, before the World Wide Web Consortium had put its full weight behind HTML 5, before HTML 5 had gotten the traction it now enjoys as an official standard in the making, and before Microsoft took interest in contributing to that standard.
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