*Source: BetaNews (
http://www.betanews.com/article/Coul...e/1180642624)*
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In what appears to be a serious and genuine attempt to take the lead in the growing Asynchronous JavaScript market - which was recently joined by Microsoft - Google may be trying to invent something that has already been invented before, perhaps several times: a way to implement a local data store for Web-based and remote applications run through the browser.
But what Google seeks to accomplish with its Gears toolset, released into beta this morning, may not be the invention itself but instead something all of its predecessors have failed to achieve: the establishment of an accepted standard.
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