Does Gears automatically make my web application work offline?
Gears extends browsers by making new APIs available to JavaScript code. Like all APIs, they must be used explicitly. To take advantage of the offline features provided by Gears, you’ll need to add or change code in your web application. There are three core modules provided by Gears: a LocalServer for storing and accessing application pages offline, a Database for storing and accessing application data on the user’s computer, and a WorkerPool for performing long-running tasks (such as the code that synchronizes data between your server and users’ computers). For more information, follow the links. A Gears Tutorial is available that illustrates the basic concepts. You may also find the Gears sample applications useful. Source code for these samples can be downloaded in a zip file found on the same page.
