Looks Like Google Calendar Offline is Getting Close
March 8th, 2008
Looks like the Google Calendar/Google Gears combo is getting near. While at Google Calendar I executed the following in the address bar of my browser:
javascript:_olp_showPromo();
I was immediately greeted with this:
I went ahead with the Google Gears installation and restarted my browser. Upon returning to Google Calendar, I found these on the resulting page:
I went ahead and allowed Google Calendar to use Google Gears, however, now I keep getting this page when I go to Google Calendar:
Clicking the Save or Cancel button will then bring up the Calendar. There are no links or controls on the Calendar (yet) for utilizing the offline feature. Looks like they are very close though.