#11301 closed task (blessed) (fixed)
Remove Gears
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Milestone: | 3.0 | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | 2.8.6 |
Component: | Performance | Keywords: | has-patch |
Focuses: | Cc: |
Description
Gears is being phased out in favor of HTML5.
Attachments (3)
Change History (31)
#2
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14 years ago
This is unfortunate, but okay, could you please link to the ticket for adding offline storage support when committing? Might be worth re-pinging the Mozilla folks helping us.
#3
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14 years ago
Although Gears for Mac is no longer available, I think it's still available for Windows, isn't it?
#4
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14 years ago
- Type changed from defect (bug) to enhancement
Not a bug. Not sure that you could call it an enhancement either, but...
#5
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14 years ago
#7262 is the ticket for HTML5 caching. It's not looking good for using it for what we want to do though.
#6
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14 years ago
- Component changed from General to Performance
Some background info:
"the company is letting the sun set on its Gears project."
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'We're continuing to support Gears so that nothing breaks for sites that use it. But we expect developers to use HTML5 for these features moving forward as it's a standards-based approach that will be available across all browsers.'"
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/11/google-gears.html
Unfortunately a very small, but noticeable percentage of WordPress.com users (Gears usage has always been very small on wp.com) have complained about the stability of the browser after installing Gears.
#8
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14 years ago
One thing that can probably be done now is removing the conditional message "Turbo is not available for your browser." from tools.php.
There's no Turbo link in the header and no explanation of what Turbo is in tools.php, nor is the "Speed Up WordPress" section title present with gears unavailable, so it's quite the orphaned phrase.
The fact that it will be phased out and/or replaced soon is just another reason to axe that line.
#9
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14 years ago
- Type changed from enhancement to defect (bug)
For 3.0 I suggest we adjust our browser detection and hide it for OS/browser pairs that don't support it.
Other than that, I suggest future release (perhaps even wontfix, and revive the ticket in the future) until it is no longer supported by the most recent version of all grade-A browsers.
#11
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14 years ago
I thought we agreed to leave it under Tools (for the reasons nacin suggests), but get rid of the Turbo link in the header (for all the other reasons). Can we just get rid of the Turbo link for now?
#12
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14 years ago
Replying to jane:
I thought we agreed to leave it under Tools (for the reasons nacin suggests), but get rid of the Turbo link in the header (for all the other reasons). Can we just get rid of the Turbo link for now?
I agree with that. We can stop calling it "Turbo" too.
#13
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14 years ago
Replying to jane:
I thought we agreed to leave it under Tools (for the reasons nacin suggests), but get rid of the Turbo link in the header (for all the other reasons). Can we just get rid of the Turbo link for now?
The Turbo link only shows up if the browser has Gears installed. (It shows up under Tools just as long as it isn't Opera, though it could realistically make a more rigorous check.) I'm fine with getting rid of it, but maybe we should just rename it to "Gears"?
Additionally, as said a few months ago, we can remove the message "Turbo is not available for your browser.", which is just kind of left there without a header or any explanation of what "Turbo" is.
I say we clean this up then close this ticket out, and open a new ticket when browsers begin to drop Gears.
#16
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14 years ago
Here is a fix for the javascript function for checking if gears is installed. Problem is, that gears is not always initialized.
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/sRrPxANb
(if someone needs it, in r13833 the link is removed.)
#18
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14 years ago
We have the all clear to remove gears completely. Let's leave the manifest stuff as is but remove the JS and everything from the UI.
#22
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14 years ago
The tools menu is now empty for those with the read capability. I'd bump it to edit_posts right now, but someone could be using the tool_box action to add stuff for readers.
Personally, I don't like the idea of shipping an empty tools menu to subscribers in a default install. As it is, I always wondered why gears wasn't edit_posts to begin with.
#23
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14 years ago
Replying to nacin:
The tools menu is now empty for those with the read capability. I'd bump it to edit_posts right now, but someone could be using the tool_box action to add stuff for readers.
+1 on bumping to edit_posts. Tools should mean "tools for creating/managing content".
#26
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14 years ago
- Resolution fixed deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
One more file to remove: wp-admin/gears-manifest.php
#27
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14 years ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from reopened to closed
I believe the Manifest is staying for users who've currently got Gears active. see ryans comment above mentioning leaving the manifest too
Also svn rm gears-manifest.php, wp-gears.js, and wp-gears.dev.js.