google-wave

Just got my wave sandbox invite today. Does anyone know of a .NET library for google wave? (client and server) I'm a c# programmer, not very familiar with the language that the Google samples are written in. It's very existing can't wait to write something for it. I'm porting the Robot API to ASP.NET if that's what you're after. Eventually the code will be hosted on this Google Code project - but there's nothing there yet. I've got as far as having most of the Java interfaces ported and I can deserialize the JSON, but I haven't done the serialization yet. I probably won't be able to make much

The FAQ of Google Wave Protocol says that [HTML] "does not have desirable properties" and that "HTML makes OT (Operational Transforms) difficult if not impossible" [1]. Why is this so? What problems arise if HTML is treated simply as plain text and then OT applied? http://www.waveprotocol.org/faq#TOC-What-s-the-XML-schema-for-waves-Why I'm assuming here you understand the basics of OT. The principal problem with doing OT on HTML as plain text is that of merging html tags. As a simple example, say we had a document as follows: Hello world Alice then decides that world should be in bold: Hello

I'm sure Wave doesn't poll the server every millisecond to find out if the other user has typed something... so how can I see what the other person is typing as they type? And without hogging the bandwidth. Persistent HTTP, Comet Keep your HTTP connection alive and send characters as they are typed *Edit in 2014: also, take a look at WebSocket and HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header . Browsers started implementing this around 2010, so I'm adding this to original answer. They probably use Web Sockets, aka server-sent events: http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets The underlying protocol can be found (as a draft)