“Can you see me now”? Chrome + Gears = desktop apps
September 5, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Insightful Chrome analysis pops up in the oddest places.
How about in a publication about mobile phones?
The UK’s “The Register” can definitely “see it”.
In their mobile section, they had this bit of insight about Chrome (just before moving on to talk about Gears and Nokia):
“Perhaps the subtlest but most important feature of Chrome is the bridge between desktop and web applications. The inclusion of Google Gears allows Google’s web services to work offline.
But Chrome users can also create a shortcut to web pages on their desktop from within Chrome. Clicking on the short cut launches the web page in a minimal “app like” window, with no address bar or navigation buttons.
So now I can have short cuts to Gmail and Google Calendar, and when gears offline support rolls out, they will seem a lot more like a standard desktop applications.”
Sounds more and more like the Windows 1.0 “Operating environment” doesn’t it?
Check out the full article here at “The Register”
