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+1  Q: 

offline website

There is a requirement to have a offline website. It is like when the connection is available the client or the browser on the PC will download contents required and when there is no internet the client will access be still available with the data which was downloaded earlier.

During the discussion there was a suggestion to use http://code.google.com/apis/gears/.

Kindly let me know what are all the other frameworks available to solve this problem.

+2  A: 

HTML 5 will contain many of the features that were previously available in Gears. The Gears API Blog has an entry titled Hello HTML5 that explains more about this. Google has stopped development on Gears itself and is concentrating their efforts on HTML 5.

Greg Hewgill
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Silverlight (or I can guess Flash) also could be used as offile storage. But as for me this is kind of overuse. May be this is better to think about ligtwait desctop application. Silverlight desktop mode? Or Adobe Air?

Mike Chaliy
+2  A: 

as greg notes, gears indeed will be phased out by google, html5 is supposed to replace gears for offline webapps.

most important specs:

  • "appCache" (to store files locally)
  • "localStorage" (to store strings)
  • "webDB" (to store structured data, will not be official part of html5 though).

and some examples;

futtta