I wrote a post a while ago about Google Gears, and how I wasn’t entirely convinced it’s the solution to the current problems on the internet. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s essentially a plugin you install in your browser that, when coupled with some javascript code, will give certain webpages the ability to offline content onto your hard drive. An example of this is Google reader — I believe if you have Google Gears installed you can manually download content to disk and view it offline later.

First, I have to ask, is that really necessary? The whole premise behind Google Gears is the assumption that people want to access a bunch of web pages even when they are offline. But is that accurate? Would it help …