

Google Drives Towards Microsoft and Adobe With Gears - ideas101
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/13/google-drives-towards-microsoft-and-adobe-with-gears/

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ComputerGuru
Only problem: Google doesn't support x64 Linux installations.

[http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=83194...](http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=83194&topic=11691)

(note that the nspluginwrapper link on their site doesn't work for Gears - it
was reported by a poster on a mailing list as working, but future posts
confirmed it doesn't do the trick)

...whereas both Flash and Moonlight work quite well on x64 now (nevermind the
past).

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ph0rque
This article helped me refine an idea that's been sloshing around in my semi-
subconscious for a while: a server-side plugin that lets the designer write
100% standards-compliant CSS, and it would be "compiled" to whatever is needed
for various quirky browsers requesting to see the particular page... is this
feasible?

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jsjenkins168
You are partially describing what GWT does. Except that it doesnt do much
special in the way of CSS yet...

But in terms of Javascript/HTML/AJAX, it compiles separate versions for each
browser (which are automatically loaded), virtually eliminating the need to
handle various quirky browser behaviors. And any standard Java app server
works fine for the server side, nothing special needed there.

