Google: Offline E-mail!!! (gmail)

Yet another reason to love Google. They've updated gmail once again with one simple, yet incredibly powerful capability: offline access!!!  Yes, for all of those people with laptops and no GSM's or tethered phones, we can search, view, and even send/forward and reply to emails offline.  For composing and forwarding/replying, they'll send when you're next connected to the internet, just like the offline email on your (airplane mode) iPhone or iPod Touch, etc.

Yes, some of you may be saying "Well, I use Outlook (or Eudora, or some other IMAP client) so I've always been able to use my email offline".  Okay fine, but for the rest of us who don't like to use virus-targeted microsoft software, this is a blessing.  Furthermore, it's a clear sign of a trend pushing email increasingly toward webmail-based services (even off-the-web!), as well as a perfect opportunity to get more out of Google Chrome's "Create Application Shortcut"...

KUDOS GOOGLE! :)