Confessions of a Web Developer

So, Gears is now available for Safari on Mac OS X. Assuming I haven't missed anything, that means Google's offline application API is available on:

• Firefox on Windows, Mac and 32-bit Linux (and other Gecko browsers if you jump through some hoops)
• IE on Windows & Windows Mobile.
• Safari on Mac
• Chrome on Windows

Conspicuously missing at this time:

• Opera
• 64-bit Linux
• Chrome on Linux & Mac
• Safari on Windows

I expect all of these are on their way, however. Opera issued a press release back in May about upcoming Gears support, though it's been quiet on the subject since then. Google has stated their intentions to expand Chrome to Linux and Mac, and there's no way that they'll leave Gears out of their own browser. And it's obvious that 64-bit systems are the wave of the future.

The only one I'm not sure of at this point is Safari on Windows, though it certainly seems likely. The silence on the Opera front has been frustrating, though I wouldn't be surprised to see built-in Gears support in Opera 10.

Having just upgraded my home Linux box to a 64-bit system this weekend, I'm kind of hoping that 64bit Linux support will show up sometime soon. Though I suppose I'll have to try the nspluginwrapper workaround.