Gears API (Labs)

What is the Gears API?

Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to web browsers.

Features

Gears modules include:

	LocalServer Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
	Database Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
	WorkerPool Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously

New in Gears 0.5

The latest version of Gears adds:

• An updated version of the embedded SQLite engine, which should significantly improve performance in database-intensive applications.
• The Geolocation API now will use WiFi antenna data to provide more accurate position data.
• Added new methods to LocalServer to store and retrieve blobs by URL.

More details about the improvements in 0.5 can be found on our API history page.