A backlash is brewing against traditional thin-client web applications. Folks are tired of the beachball. Vendors of Web-based applications like Gmail, in which users spend a significant portion of their day, will respond by incorporating client-side persistence, offline operation and synchronization. In particular Gmail will add these features in 2007.
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I really hope they will, I've been waiting for them to co-op with Linux to release there own distro. The Google monopoly is on the horizon!
Mkay Google intro'd Gears yesterday http://gears.google.com/ and enabled offline support in Reader. Waiting for Gmail...