Offline Google Docs expected to launch

Recent news from the blogosphere indicates that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears.

As of 2008, the only official integration for Gears is Google Reader, although there are rumours of offline functionality for Google Calendar, along with a report on Google Blogoscoped claiming that Google Docs now has partial offline access.

A spokesperson from Google's US headquarters told ZDNet.co.uk sister site CNET News.com that the company is "working on enabling many of our applications to run on Google Gears, but we don't have anything more specific to share at this time". read full story