The upcoming version of WordPress (v2.6), which is due for release in August 2008, will use Google Gears plugin. Unlike other web applications which have already incorporated Gears to provide offline capability for their users, WordPress intends to use Gears for a very different purpose – to speed things up.
WordPress 2.6 will use Gears to store some images, CSS files and other web elements to your local hard drive, so that the browser doesn’t have to fetch them from the server. This means, your common day-to-day blogging tasks like moderating comments or saving post drafts will be speedier.
At this point of time, Gears dependent features are being worked out. It’s not clear whether we’ll actually be able to save drafts or edit comments while working offline.
Sidenote: Google recently decided to change the project name of Google Gears to just “Gears”.
WordPress Trac – [Via: Labnol]
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