Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web. Google Wave is also a platform with a rich set of open APIs that allow developers to embed waves in other web services and to build extensions that work inside waves.
I haven't seen a lot of visible change and/or progress with Wave either in features or quality of service (other than the Groups addition from yesterday) or am I missing significant improvements? Is Wave development in the doldrums or are there updates coming soon?
It doesn't work to add public@a.gwave.com to the wave after the fact?
- LogEx
It says that public@a.gwave.com is not a Wave user
- Itachi
Add it to your contact list, the Submit button will be grayed-out, but hit the enter key and it will add. Then you can add it to waves. [more discussion here: http://www.google.com/support...]
- LogEx
Thanks guys. The completewaveguide link worked; you add the easypublic@appspot.com bot and it's public.
- Itachi
just remember, once a wave goes public, you can't make it private again - no. matter. what. - unless google changes things... but as it is right now making a wave public is a permanent non-reversible action
- Chris Heath
Fwd: Is anybody using Wave in IE8 with the Chrome plug in -- uploading files as attachments appears just not to work. Are others seeing this as well? (via http://friendfeed.com/google-...)
Je voudrais simplement cette vague devenus tout aussi fascinante et excitante que tout cela était tellement mis en avant pour être dès le début, mais je suis dans de grands espoirs qu'il va devenir de cette façon dans un an.
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
I've noticed that in Google Wave, I've been locked out for a long time with this error message "You are not a participant in this wave". Also, I can't even seem to be able to open my Gmail normally; only in HTML-only version.
But I realized today that the actual problem was Google Chrome. This only happens in this browser, and it's fine in others like Firefox. Kinda ironic.
- Itachi
I've never had any such issues with Chrome, Wave and gmail.
- Christopher A Carr
Chrome is slowest, crashiest browser I recall using, for me. Are you on the bleeding edge developer's version of Chrome or the normal one that's supposed to work?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
I'm on the latest dev and it is the complete opposite of "crashiest browser."
- Christopher A Carr
Chrome works fine (and usually faster) for js-intensive sites (and pretty much anysite). I don't think it's crashy, but it's just perplexing that it has these issues with gWave and Gmail.
- Itachi
Well, I'm using Chrome 3.0.195.27 and Chromium 4.0.202.0 (Developer Build 23181). In Chromium, interestingly, I can't even login. I'll try updating to the latest for both of them and see if that makes any difference.
- Itachi
I noticed that you're an "Amazigh" too! Since when? ;)
- directeur
Since I discovered awesome Gnawa and Tamazight music!
- Itachi
Ah! You discovered Gnawa! Great! Welcome aboard :)
- directeur
Hmm -- bad enough that IE8 has to be massaged to run Wave but it doesn't work correctly -- attaching files fails. Getting Wave into most enterprises is going to be tough if it doesn't work on IE.
I don't know directeur -- who should be blamed?
- Brian Sullivan
It seems just not to work -- lots of issues. Unless Google can get this straightened out it will be difficult for Wave to penetrate many large companies that for better or worse are committed to IE.
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, I too don't know. I just have a feeling that IE8 is. Why? Opera, Safari and Firefox are well supported and knowing IE's history I wouldn't be surprised.
- directeur
IE8 is massaged by installing "Chrome frame" -- it is in "Chrome frame" (which is essentially Chrome ActiveX installed in IE) that it fails -- it is in the Google product that it fails. Assigning fault though is moot -- if it doesn't work on the browser used by the largest percentage of potential users then it will fail.
- Brian Sullivan