The question is ... is html5 offline access the same as google gears? i haven't compared the two but html5 offline access is based on google gears?<p>The scenario is this. I want to support offline access in my web app and I'm wondering whether I should built it using Google Gears.<p>My thoughts are
- since Gears is being phased out in favour of HTML5, it might be a bad idea if I have to migrate the code later to HTML5
- may not be a problem if HTML5 is based on Gears.
- Gears need to specifically get the user to install a plugin, HTML5 does not
- Only some browsers support HTML5 offline access but Gears can run on 'all'
Most modern browsers support HTML5 -- probably more than there is gears support, honestly. Gears is end-of-life'd. Even Google Chrome doesn't support Gears at this point.<p>I'd go with HTML5.