Gears for Opera Mobile

By Andreas Bovensandreasbovens. Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00:00 PM

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Over at Opera Labs, we've just announced an Opera Mobile 9.5 technology preview build with support for Gears, which allows you to store data locally in a searchable database, run JavaScript in the background, and integrate web applications with the desktop.

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You can find the technological nitty-gritty, including installation instructions in the Opera Labs article.

I've been using Opera Mobile with Gears to download news stories for offline usage on the ITN Mobile site, and I'm currently playing around with WordPress' Gears powered admin interface, which enables you to blog "faster than the speed of light." :-) They both work excellent, but as we haven't tested this feature extensively yet, things might break on other sites. In any case, be sure to try it out, and let us know what Gears enabled sites work for you. If you find a bug, there's of course the bug wizard.

It's probably also worth pointing out that, besides this Gears implementation, we're also working on support for the HTML 5 Offline Web Applications spec, which has stabilized recently. We're not quite sure yet when that will be ready, but we'll definitely let you know here on the ODIN blog!

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Comments

Anonymous Friday, February 20, 2009 1:14:45 PM

jsmanrique writes: Great news!!

Dan Alexandrudantesoft Friday, February 20, 2009 2:56:15 PM

Gears debuts on Mobile, a nice surprise smile

Charles SchlossChas4 Friday, February 20, 2009 4:20:01 PM

cool

Tenno Seremeltenno-seremel Friday, February 20, 2009 4:41:29 PM

I'm happy to hear about HTML 5 Offline Web Applications smile

Anonymous Saturday, February 21, 2009 2:12:32 AM

Matt Lewandowsky writes: Sounds neat! Gears sounds awesome for a mobile device. And HTML 5 Offline Web Applications was on my to-play-with list already, sweet! I'm now waiting even more impatiently until I can run Opera 9.5 on my Smartphone. :)

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:05:28 AM

It strikes me as odd that Opera went with the proprietary version of clients-side storage over the w3c version first. Totally unexpected but glad to hear you're working on it.

HenryAOTEAROAnz Tuesday, March 3, 2009 9:49:18 PM

cool

Anonymous Monday, March 9, 2009 3:49:26 PM

grigory writes: fearphage, just a note: Google Gears is an open source project.

MyOpera team, please fix this!fearphage Monday, March 9, 2009 6:33:25 PM

I am well-aware that Google Gears is open source, but not a standard like html 5's client-side storage.

Anonymous Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:00:08 PM

araskin writes: Is there been any further updates on this? Does Opera Mobile support HTML5? If so, is there any detailed documentation on this?

Andreas Bovensandreasbovens Wednesday, September 22, 2010 12:23:06 PM

Araskin, Gears in Opera Mobile never made it beyond a technology preview, as Gears was discontinued by Google earlier this year. For HTML5 support in our products, see http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/productspecs/ and http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/

Junius Kalumbangjuniusk Sunday, September 11, 2011 3:53:49 AM

i love opera

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