Google Gears is now out of Beta for Safari, and with that news I decided to install it today and see how it worked with WordPress.

For those who aren’t in the know:

“Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser:

• Let web applications interact naturally with your desktop
• Store data locally in a fully-searchable database
• Run JavaScript in the background to improve performance

Google’s own web-apps take advantage of Gears, and other CMS’s are adding the ability to take advantage of it. Google writes:

“Gears is an incremental improvement to the web as it is today. It adds just enough to AJAX to make current web applications work offline. Gears today covers what we think is the minimal set of primitives required for offline apps. It is still a bit rough and in …