Gears, an open source technology allowing browsers to support offline web applications has been released by Google to coincide with the company's annual Developer Day.
Gears provides three main JavaScript APIs. LocalServer stores and accesses application pages offline, Database stores and accesses application data on the user's computer, and WorkerPool performs long-running tasks such as synchronising data between the user's computer and the server.
One thing mentionable about Gears is that web applications must be rewritten to take advantage of its facilities. A Gears-enabled version of Google Reader has been released to demonstrate what's possible.
Support for the project has been voiced by Adobe, Mozilla and Opera. The Google Gears beta is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and requires Firefox 1.5 or later, or Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Safari will be supported in a later release
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Just one thing: Your existing web apps need not be completely rewritten like you mentioned. You may need to add or change code in your web app.
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