Opera Mobile 9.5 Now Supports Google Gears
February 27, 2009 6:44 PM | Google | Software | Comments (0)
 The use cases for Gears differ somewhat between mobile and desktop devices. On mobile, Gears is perfect for creating a better user experience by allowing applications to cache data more efficiently, so you can cut down on bandwidth, and carry out processes discreetly in the background. On the desktop, Gears has ideal functionality for allowing your applications to function offline and synchronize data with the server when you get back online again. You can try this out for yourself with the various Gears samples available on Google Code. |
Installing Gears is pretty easy. Install the Opera Mobile 9.5 technology preview build, go to the Gears web site and click the “Install Gears” button. This makes all the Gears APIs available, so users can take advantage of advanced functionality when they surf to Gears-enabled web sites.
The idea is that as a developer using Gears your web site should contain a piece of code that detects whether Gears is installed on a visiting browser, before your web application tries to access Gears APIs. The code should first initialize Gears by including gears_init.js, then do a check to see if google.gears is defined, which it will be if Gears is installed. If it isn’t, your code should probably redirect the user to the Gears installation page, or serve them up a more basic version of your application, depending on what is most suitable for your situation. If Gears is installed, then it should just continue running the rest of the code.
For more information visit Opera.com.
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