Offline Version of Google Docs Expected to Launch Soon
January 30th, 2008 by
Word around the web is that Google is preparing to launch an offline version of Google Docs through Google Gears, a rumor which has been fueled even more now by what look to be screenshots of Google Docs in offline mode. To date, the only official integration for Google Gears is Reader. Google Blogoscoped, however, is claiming that Google Docs now has partial offline access.
Google Gears, which was announced last May at the company’s annual Developer Day, is a browser extension for Internet Explorer 6.0+ and Firefox 1.5+ which enables web applications to provide offline functionality through JavaScript APIs.
The screenshots over at Blogoscoped look pretty convincing, and it appears that Google is at least working on getting more of their tools to work with Google Gears. For the time being, however, it appears that this Google Docs offline functionality is just being tested and is in the very early stages of integration.
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