For you Google Gear heads out there, there has been some progress in Gear world, and soon the Web will be full of Gear enabled applications. First out of the gate to offer full read-write implementation, check out Zoho's Writer Offine.
The Google Gears API Blog, has a post, and video shot by Raju Vegesna and Sridhar Vembu of the Zoho team to discuss what their latest release and how it works. Its well worth the viewing time if you are interested in the sync and merge process they came up with to make Gears work in both directions.
Take a look at Google Gears API Blog - Zoho Writer Offline, Full read-write implementation released:
Zoho has announced a new version of Zoho Writer which does give you the ability to edit file on a plane.Sphere: Related Content
If you know that you are leaving the land of the 'net, go ahead and click on the Go Offline button, and your most recent documents will be loaded into a local database in the browser. You can then edit those files at will, and when you find a connection again you can sync up. Zoho has a merge system in the backend which detects changes made, perhaps by multiple people on the same file, and allows you to get all of the changes in.
We sat down with Raju and Sridhar again and discussed the merging and sync system, as well as the other architecture decisions that the team made with this latest release. We chat about what you can expect now, and also the next steps for offline in Writer and their other products.
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