Or even Moodle Nears Google Gears?
Whatever, I may be coming late to the party on this (but a quick forum search says maybe not... 
) but what are people's general thoughts about potential relationships between Google Gears and Moodle?
(quotes...)
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. Gears provides three key features:
- A local server, to cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) without needing to contact a server
- A database, to store and access data from within the browser
- A worker thread pool, to make web applications more responsive by performing expensive operations in the background
(from: What is Google Gears?)
At last year's UK Moot, there was something mentioned (by Martin D, I believe) about Intel making some noises about an offline Moodle browser (forgive me if I'm waaaay off beam there). I'm not sure where this has got to / is heading towards...
What do people think about the potential for something like Google Gears (or similar technology) being integrated into Moodle (and before anyone gently slaps me, I haven't looked at the architecture too closely...
) - of course, the Intel thing might be that, but this appears to be something significant (hey, when it makes a story here you suspect something might be coming...)
Ian (off to blog about this now...)
