google-gears

Using Gears for Geolocation in Webview? (for 1.5 phones)

I was able to setup geolocation accessibility in my webview for any android phone running 2.0 and up easily. However I really need to get this feature working on 1.5 and 1.6 phones as well. From what i've read it seems like this feature used to be accomplished with "Gears" and apparently there is a way to use addJavascriptInterface to im...

Google gears Geolocation problems

Since today and yesterday I can't get Googles geolocation to work with my desktop firefox or IE browser or with my blackberry. This has been working for at least three months. When I browse to their sample I get a "Error retrieving your location: Network provider at http://www.google.com/loc/json did not provide a good position fix." er...

Best way to implement drag and drop upload Google Gears or HTML 5

What would you recommend for supporting drag and drop upload - that is being able to drag a file icon from the desktop onto some "zone" on a web page and have it uploaded to the server. THe options are Google Gears,HTML 5 or anything else you can recommend. The criteria are: should work on as many browsers as possible should work into ...

JavaScript wrapper for Google Gears / HTML5

Are there any JavaScript wrapper scripts available that can use HTML5 JavaScript features if they are available (e.g. locaStorage / Web Storage / anything in common between Google Gears and HTML5), falling back to Google Gears if the browser is not capable (e.g. IE6 or IE7) While it would be ideal that IE7/6 users all move to IE8 (or Ch...