Google Gears, WebKit nightlies, Safari 4 and Fluid.app
When I was in Prague last year for Euruko, I didn’t have access to my mails because I was relying on Gmail’s web-based interface. Since then, I’ve been using Mail.app almost exclusively because I didn’t want to put myself into a situation where I’d have to hunt for a internet cafe just to read a note I stored in my mailbox.
Google’s announcement regarding Gears working with Gmail seemed to good to be true and it was: WebKit and Fluid (and now Safari 4 beta) didn’t work with that version of Gears. However, if you build the latest version of Google Gears from source, WebKit and Fluid will be able to access Gmail in offline mode.
The steps are pretty simple, once you have
Iceberg installed:
svn co
http://gears.googlecode.com/svn/trunk google-gears
cd google-gears/gears
make
MODE=opt
open /bin-opt/installers/Safari/
and then double-click on the gears.pkg package to install Google Gears.
You can verify you have Gears installed by opening WebKit or Safari 4 and selecting
Google Gears Settings from the
Safari menu. It should show at least version 0.5.13.
If you don’t want to wait the 20-something minutes for the Subversion checkout and another 20 minutes to compile the package, you can grab yesterday’s nightly from
http://static.artfulco.de/google-gears/gears-3234.zip.
Thanks Andrei Maxim
