title: google gears discontinued, html 5 in draft
body: <p>we've trying to develop a mobile web app that will provide offline capabilities, not just reading but also creating content. </p>
  
  <p>Gears supports three important aspects:
  - local server so we can have cached static content such as html, css, js, etc
  - local database so that we can have data stored locally for offline access as well as store new content inside of it while offline
  - workerpool, used for a background process that syncs data back to the server</p>
  
  <p>By the looks of the gears page and some other articles, gears is being abandoned in favour of html 5 which is understandable.</p>
  
  <p>However, at this stage there are two problems:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>there's still a long way to have HTML 5 supported by major desktop browsers,let alone mobile ones</li>
  <li>HTML 5 does not support workers, there is a draft <a href="http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://dev.w3.org/html5/workers/</a> but I assume real browser support is still far away.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>Do what does one do today? (e.g. within the next year)
  Cheers
  Rok</p>