Google announced a mobile browser extension for creating rich web applications for mobile devices. The first version is now available for Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Mobile 5 and 6. It can be used to develop offline capability into your mobile web applications. You can also create slick and responsive applications by hiding latency issues through controlled caching of data and storage of information between sessions.
Google said that they are also working to bring Google Gears for mobile to Android and other mobile platforms with capable web browsers.
As we know that Mobile devices are disconnected from the network more or less . Considering the fact that even when your mobile is connected, lag + slow connections usually mess up the web applications. Google claimed that Google Gears will overcome these issues!
Google Gears works in exactly the same way on a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device as it does on a desktop PC. If you’ve already written an application that uses Google Gears, your application will also work on a Windows Mobile 5 or 6 device. Except, of course, only within the limitations of that device.
This means you need to consider things such as small screen and limited ability to input text as well as the limitations of the Document Object Model and CSS APIs present on mobile devices. Limitations of Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices are discussed later in this document.
