Google Docs is Adding Offline Capability
A modern Office Suite must have both offline and online components and that what we saw when recently Microsoft added the Office Live Workspace to its popular Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc..).
Google is doing it in opposite direction. Since they started out their Google Docs as Web-based, now Google starts rolling out gradually to its user base its offline capability. User now can either work online on a document when connected to the Internet or offline when disconnected. The latest version of the document will get sync’ed when the user goes back online.
A browser extension called Google Gears is needed for Firefox and IE to activate the offline capability. (Zoho, another Web-base Office suite, has been using Google Gears for while). What the below video for more:
[Via Arstechnica]
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