January 29, 2009
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Google has announced publicly that its free email service, Gmail, is now available offline.
Google stated that the change was the result of airline flights without Wi-Fi which leave you also without
access to its Gmail system.
A Google spokesperson said "this poses a problem for those of us who get a lot of our work done online."
Google's Gmail Labs team has been working on its new offline application. If Gmail users enable that feature,
it will load in their Web browser without an Internet connection required.
Of course, there will be some features that won't be able to work if they do that...
The "send" and "receive" email buttons will of course be the most obvious that will not work. But being
able to read existing messages, label them, archive them, compose new ones and queue them to be sent when an Internet
connection becomes available will be working.
For those that don't know this, Gmail was originally developed on the same "Gear" platform that has added
offline functionality to Google Docs and Google Reader.
To go offline with Gmail, users need to sign in and go to Google Labs with the "Settings" option. From there, they
can enable "Gmail Offline" and save their changes.
They can then click the offline link to start a form of so-called synchronisation process to get to their messages.
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