Gears for Opera Mobile
Over at Opera Labs, we've just announced an Opera Mobile 9.5 technology preview build with support for Gears, which allows you to store data locally in a searchable database, run JavaScript in the background, and integrate web applications with the desktop.
You can find the technological nitty-gritty, including installation instructions in the Opera Labs article.
I've been using Opera Mobile with Gears to download news stories for offline usage on the ITN Mobile site, and I'm currently playing around with WordPress' Gears powered admin interface, which enables you to blog "faster than the speed of light." :-) They both work excellent, but as we haven't tested this feature extensively yet, things might break on other sites. In any case, be sure to try it out, and let us know what Gears enabled sites work for you. If you find a bug, there's of course the bug wizard.
It's probably also worth pointing out that, besides this Gears implementation, we're also working on support for the HTML 5 Offline Web Applications spec, which has stabilized recently. We're not quite sure yet when that will be ready, but we'll definitely let you know here on the ODIN blog!
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About this article
| Published in | ODIN blog |
|---|---|
| Date | February 19, 2009 |
| Author | andreasbovens |
| Tags | gears opera mobile, 3, 5, 9.6, accessibility, alpha, audio, bad practices, Belgian, Belgium, best, beta |
| Original | Internet Archive |
#20. February 2009, 13:14:45
Great news!!
dantesoft20. February 2009, 14:56:15
Chas420. February 2009, 16:20:01
Haruka aka Seremel20. February 2009, 16:41:29
#21. February 2009, 02:12:32
Sounds neat! Gears sounds awesome for a mobile device. And HTML 5 Offline Web Applications was on my to-play-with list already, sweet! I'm now waiting even more impatiently until I can run Opera 9.5 on my Smartphone.
fearphage22. February 2009, 10:05:28
AOTEAROAnz3. March 2009, 21:49:18
#9. March 2009, 15:49:26
fearphage, just a note: Google Gears is an open source project.
fearphage9. March 2009, 18:33:25
#17. March 2009, 08:53:26