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Google releases Gears for Safari
By admin | September 29, 2008
Google has officially released Gears for Safari for Apple Mac OS X users. It will allow Mac users to access Gears-enabled sites such as WordPress, Zoho office, the new Youtube uploader, and Google Docs while using the Safari web browser. The minimum requirements for Gears to be installed are Tiger 10.4.1 or Leopard 10.5.3. Google released the following statement on their official Google Mac Blog says iPhone 3G Accessories. When you install Gears, you’ll notice that it’s composed of 2 components: an NPAPI plugin which lives in “/Library/Internet Plugins” and an InputManager. Gears needs to load first thing upon browser startup, for cases in which the first page loaded into the browser is from the Gears offline cache. NPAPI provides no mechanism for loading that early (it only provides support for loading plugins the first time a page specifically includes them) so we needed a small InputManager to do the work for us.
For browsers other than Safari that use the WebKit engine, we’ve provided a really simple mechanism to allow them to load Gears into their program without using the InputManager. Fluid is one example of a 3rd party browser that supports Gears this way.
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