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The core concept is: a robust method for automatically merging concurrent changes to a published resource by collaborating users in real-time (OT). It's true th
by noibl 16y ago
The core concept is: a robust method for automatically merging concurrent changes to a published resource by collaborating users in real-time (OT). It's true that other key components of Wave were seen as essential to its success (in particular the federation protocol and the bots API) but those were still designed in support of the core use-case: real-time collaborative editing.
There was a ridiculous amount of hype about the project and all the things it might replace but that doesn't change the fact that its development was and is focused on solving an actual problem using real technological innovation.
- samdk 16y agoThis is actually exactly what I meant by a lack of focus. That may be the focus of the underlying codebase (and that may be where the innovation is), but the UI was just really a glorified chat room. It wasn't particularly suited to actually doing real-time editing.
- noibl 16y agoThe UI from Google was little more than proof-of-concept. The ability to sync arbitrary data, not just chat text, on the fly is what will make Wave useful if it ever sees wide adoption. That really is the core concept and not chat, as many seem to think. It's not accurate to say that there's no core concept.