> I think it's a shame that google never implemented more of the core ideas from etherpad, such as playback and contributor text highlighting > Etherpad deserv

> I think it's a shame that google never implemented more of the core ideas from etherpad, such as playback and contributor text highlighting > Etherpad deserved all the attention that google wave was receiving at the time I find your post confusing because I thought that Google Wave did have playback and contributor text highlighting. I suspect that the reason Docs never gained these features was that Wave was supposed to replace it, but AFAICT Wave never saw the kind of user adoption it needed (probably due to its sluggish performance) and was killed off.