Google Gmail Offline
So you can finally work with Gmail again without having to be connected to the Internet. I know Gmail has legions of fanboys in the tech press, but I have to confess that I’m not in this group.
Its interface lacks usability and looks like nothing more than a spreadsheet cluttered with links and buttons. I also find its conversation view problematic to work with at times, though it can be helpful in compressing lots of emails on the same subject. A year and a half ago, you could get offline access to Gmail using Google’s Gears runtime, and after abandoning that technology, Google has finally come out with the HTML5-based Offline Google Mail. Unlike Gears, and though it’s based on the supposedly standard HTML5 standard, the Offline Google Mail Web app won’t work in any browser other than Chrome, even though several other browsers have long supported HTML5 storage. This new version is available as a Chrome Web Store “app,” something we’ve seen more and more of lately, restricting Google services and features to the company’s own browser. Readmore
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