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"I also feel that it's not fair to complain about the GOOGLE CHROME app store requiring GASP GOOGLE CHROME" I read that as complaining about a WEB APP store re

• joshstrange 12y ago
  Ok, if Gmail was an app in the Google Chrome store only then that might be a problem but this is "Offline" Gmail which I'm sure is using Chrome-specific API's to do it's magic. Google used to have thing called Google Gears (or something like that) that was a framework that would allow for things like Offline Gmail in FF but if I had to guess they either didn't have great adoption or where too limited in what they could so they dropped it and rolled it's features into Chrome. What I'm not a fan of is "Lowest-denominator web is the best web" arguement. It's not and I'm sorry but unlimited backwords-compatibility is a pipedream, at some point you have to move forward.
  • Smudge 12y ago
    There are non-Chrome-specific "offline" APIs. Some already found in the wild, and some still exist as specs. Google is free to roll their own and keep it to themselves, but I think it's perfectly okay to shame them when they do. It's the same reason I was against ActiveX components in IE. Theres nothing fundamentally wrong with a company pushing things that align with their interests, but there's also nothing wrong with complaining about it like this Tumblr blog does.