Why is the AIR approach preferable to building an offline component for browser-based applications, along the lines of what Google is doing with Google Gears?

为什么用air的方式为浏览器上的应用构建离线组件是更可取的，与Google用Google Gears做的事情相比？

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Similar hardware for the both systems is preferable.

最好对两个系统使用类似的硬件。

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If the callback is being used to request a password for encrypting data, it is preferable to ask for the password twice, in some fashion, to catch any typos.

如果正在使用回调函数来请求对数据进行加密使用的密码，最好是以某种方式请求两次，这样可以多一次机会接收用户的输入。

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General Musharraf will no doubt say that a strong presidency and a constitutional role for the army are preferable to lurching from democracy to dictatorship and back, as Pakistan has done throughout its 54-year history.

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And it would certainly be preferable for the government to adopt all of the Neill proposals than to delay legislation or dilute the recommendations which cause it difficulty.

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But politically, even an early demolition would have been preferable for the government than going to the polls with an unsold Dome on its hands, a moth-balled monument to its hubris.

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