Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Google Gears API Blog: Blog.gears: An offline Blogger client

Google Gears API Blog: Blog.gears: An offline Blogger client
I tend to write a fair share of blog posts, and whenever I am writing them while offline I tend to open up Textmate to do the write-up. Wouldn't it be nice if I could open up my blog editor and do it all while I am offline?We thought that this would be a useful example to tie together Blogger and the newly released Blogger GData JavaScript library to create an offline Blog editor, Blog.gears.The architecture behind the editor follows the pattern of:
The UI looks to the local DB for data
When an event happens it gets queued
When an event happens the UI tries to send it to the cloud
Events have status flags to let the system know what is happening
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