Almost a week ago I published some upcoming Features of Wordpress 2.6 which included Google Gears Support.

Including me, most of the other bloggers assumed that Google Gears support for Wordpress 2.6 means it will probably feature Offline Blogging however the assumption was quite wrong as revealed by blogger Amit at Digital Inspiration today.

Google Gears support is being added to Wordpress 2.6 for managed offline storage and not for offline blogging. This will improve the loading speed as all static admin interface content (images, css, javascript etc) will now be loaded locally instead of the web server on which the blog is hosted. More information on this feature can be tracked on Wordpress Trac.

This is still a very good new feature that will improve Wordpress performance but not having Offline Blogging support is a big turn off for some bloggers like me.