Right this is confusing me quite a bit, i'm not sure if any of you have noticed or used the "my location" feature on google maps using your desktop (or none GPS/none mobile device). If you have a b...

Why is the following foreign key constraint (although executes fine) not enforced by SQLite? How can I go about enforcing the relationship? CREATE TABLE User ( UserID TEXT Unique NOT NULL PRIMARY...

Is there a way to set the value of a file input (<input type="file" />) or is that all blocked for security? I'm trying to use google gears' openFiles to make a simple multi-uploader. ...

I'm working on comparison for several different methods of implementing (real or fake) multithreading in JavaScript. As far as I know only webworkers and Google Gears WorkerPool can give you real t...

I don't want to have the user install Google Gears so I can show him his guessed location. Is there a way to get the location without having to use Google Gears? I have found http://www.wipmania.c...

Is there a nice tidy jQuery plugin that allows including a single JS script then using a simple snippet to enable a form? Something like this: $j('#MyForm').enableDragDropUploads('.upload-ar...

I want to create an application which will have a client and server components. The client may not be connected to the internet all the time, and hence will have to store data locally and then sync...

So - I've been using this method of file uploading for a bit, but it seems that Google Gears has poor support for the newer browsers that implement the HTML5 specs. I've heard the word deprecated f...

I am thinking about using Gears in a project, but I have doubts about it. Do you think that Gears will really be (or already were) accepted by the community as the state-of-art solution for what i...

Is there a library out there that will get you your approximate location using the google service (https://www.google.com/loc/json)? Google Gears has support for it as described here http://code.go...

In my demos, I'd like to avoid using traditional DBs and store all the data on the client side, e.g. information submitted via a form. What alternatives do I have for that. I've heard about Gears ...

Is there a complete list of Google Gears enabled sites? I'm aware of rememberthemilk.com, google docs and google calendar

I'm looking for a good article or description of what HTML 5 actually is or isn't. At Google I/O last year, I kept hearing that Google Gears can be thought of as a reference implementation of HTML ...

Will everything go to the cloud? If so, in which direction? Google-Gears? Flash,AIR,JavaFX? See also: Does desktop development matter?

Note: this is a different problem to https - it's related to privacy security I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to take load off our server [cache] by pushing information to the browser. I...