Comments on: Google’s desktop-based RSS reader: Thumbs up! Nice and speedy http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/05/31/googles-desktop-based-rss-reader/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:43:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Bill Janssen http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/05/31/googles-desktop-based-rss-reader/#comment-392922 Bill Janssen Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:00:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6635#comment-392922 Gears basically adds three things to the Web browser (via a plug-in, for you geeks out there, and which currently is available for IE and Firefox -- they have a Safari port running and you can build it from source with Gears in it, if you can build Safari from source), and provides Javascript APIs for all three: threading, an SQL-interfaced local (client-side) data store, and a system for defining a manifest which describes all the pieces of a Web application (and a way of automatically keeping those pieces up-to-date in your browser cache). There's actually a fourth piece, because the SQL storage piece is based on SQLite, and Google and the SQLite crowd are developing an extension to SQLite which gives you fast full-text search (again, this would be in the Web browser) to use to find things in pages you've looked at, or Gmail messages, or (I suppose eventually) WAR AND PEACE. There was a talk about Dojo Offline, which is being re-built to use Gears, and provides a higher-level API to all the Gears functionality which also defines things like automatic application data synchronization. Gears basically adds three things to the Web browser (via a plug-in, for you geeks out there, and which currently is available for IE and Firefox — they have a Safari port running and you can build it from source with Gears in it, if you can build Safari from source), and provides Javascript APIs for all three: threading, an SQL-interfaced local (client-side) data store, and a system for defining a manifest which describes all the pieces of a Web application (and a way of automatically keeping those pieces up-to-date in your browser cache). There’s actually a fourth piece, because the SQL storage piece is based on SQLite, and Google and the SQLite crowd are developing an extension to SQLite which gives you fast full-text search (again, this would be in the Web browser) to use to find things in pages you’ve looked at, or Gmail messages, or (I suppose eventually) WAR AND PEACE.

There was a talk about Dojo Offline, which is being re-built to use Gears, and provides a higher-level API to all the Gears functionality which also defines things like automatic application data synchronization.

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/05/31/googles-desktop-based-rss-reader/#comment-392784 David Rothman Thu, 31 May 2007 23:31:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6635#comment-392784 Totally agree! Thanks for the update, Bill, and I'll welcome further details as you learn more. David Totally agree! Thanks for the update, Bill, and I’ll welcome further details as you learn more. David

]]> By: Bill Janssen http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/05/31/googles-desktop-based-rss-reader/#comment-392772 Bill Janssen Thu, 31 May 2007 23:24:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6635#comment-392772 Actually, I think I take it all back. I've just got reader working on my laptop (with Gears for offline), and it only caches the RSS tidbit (the title and date and description and URL part). If you want to read the whole story, it still goes out to the external Web site to pull it in. They need to add that second-level caching... Actually, I think I take it all back.

I’ve just got reader working on my laptop (with Gears for offline), and it only caches the RSS tidbit (the title and date and description and URL part). If you want to read the whole story, it still goes out to the external Web site to pull it in.

They need to add that second-level caching…

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