Google Gears updated

Google has released a new version of Google Gears. Among the new additions are the HttpRequest, much like the AJAX HttpRequest, and Timer classes. At first glance it seems like Google is definitely looking forward to expand the plug-in into a full development platform. However, until then, here is a little teaser as to what can be done with their workerPool.createWorkerFromUrl and timer.setInterval APIs. :)