Comments on: Gmail Unplugs from the Cloud with Offline Support

By: paulspoerry

paulspoerry — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:20:35 +0000

I was curious about the security of the “offline” part of Gmail. After a bit of research I wrote up a post on how the data is secured here: http://www.paulspoerry.com/2009/01/29/offline-gmail-is-it-secure/

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:05:05 +0000

this is great. I’ll have to go try this out now. I’m less concerned with it for home use – where the internet is pretty stable – but for my laptop it will be nice to at least be able to compose email and read old emails even when there is no connection.

By: thegeniusfiles

thegeniusfiles — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:26:13 +0000

Wow, this has been a very long time coming, but better late than never. No attachments in offline compose mode. That severely limits its usefulness to me. No contact management in offline mode. Those two must be remedied. On the plus side, Gmail is much faster and more responsive with Gears enabled. My main question at this point is, if you clear the cache in Firefox, will this clear your downloaded Gmail as well?

By: David Pierce

David Pierce — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:53:13 +0000

FINALLY. If this turns into anything significant, I’m ditching Outlook forever. I just wish they’d roll it out a little faster…

The attachments piece is crucial too, even just a basic HTML view is enough for me. I hope this goes somewhere! Though a question- do the labs features (tasks, etc.) come offline with Gmail, or just the email?

By: alexandremrj

alexandremrj — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:51:58 +0000

Don’t forget that Gmail also warned that things that are dependable of online will not work – like spell checker – so watch what you write.
I still don’t have it in my email but I want to test how the pdf files will work because they now depend on Google viewer

Love this blog, keep it up please

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:49:39 +0000

yet another reason to love the wonderful things they are doing over their at Google!!