Gears comes to Safari

Hot on the heels of the release of Chrome, Google’s adoption of the WebKit rendering engine is already pushing things forward for other browsers.

Gears is a JavaScript API which (using Google’s explanation) is “an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to web browsers”. Gears allows applications to run offline, interact with files and folders on a user’s machine and generally run more like a desktop application than a website.

Gears is now available for the main browsers in Windows, Mac and Linux and is set to become a big part of future web applications. If you haven’t already, download it now!