Sweetch Blog

Since Gmail Offline release, Sweetch project has become more relevant than ever. Because, even if Gmail Offline is really a killer-app, it forces users to have the Gears plugin installed. And everybody knows that Gears is not the web : it’s not based on any standard and it’s not widely plugged in clients browsers.

That’s why we need Sweetch : to get a complete freedom from the client specific technologies to achieve offline web applications. Sweetch will allow your application to work on any system with Gears, AIR or Java runtime installed (more than 90% of the clients). Later, some other storage providers will be available : Flash, HTML5 and browsers specific features are planned.

We’ve noticed that Aptana has launched a similar project : ActiveRecordJs. That’s an interesting project, but its goals are different from ours : we’ll talk about it in a next post.

Next month, we’ll release a complete application demonstrating the capabilities of Sweetch : it’s going to show to everybody that Sweetch could have a great future.