Hopefully Google keeps Gears alive long enough for HTML5 to really take root. Though relying on any kind of plugin is undesirable, Gears supplied a functionalit

Hopefully Google keeps Gears alive long enough for HTML5 to really take root. Though relying on any kind of plugin is undesirable, Gears supplied a functionality that was useful and unattainable any other way. I'm glad to see that the innovations spurred by Gears will soon be ubiquitous without the need of the plugin itself.