Is Google Gears Really a Long-term Solution?

Question

I am thinking about using Gears in a project, but I have doubts about it.

Do you think that Gears will really be (or already were) accepted by the community as the state-of-art solution for what it purposes?

Although Gears seems to be awesome, I think that the community is kind of scared to use it.

What do you think about it?

Answer 1

The client side storage in HTML 5 will provide an upgrade path from Gears, should Google ever decide to deprecate Gears. There's an interesting article about Google using an abstraction layer so that Gears is not required on browsers supporting HTML 5 client-side storage.

Answer 2

Google Gears is not a long-term solution. On February 19, 2010, Google announced that Gears is being discontinued, and that they believe the correct solution is through standards-complaint options such as HTML5.