Combine this with the CSS3 specs and the recent move to bring several scripting languages to the w3c should give us a future web where full web apps can be rolled out faster with out the use of a comping or rapid dev tool like rails, or stupid CSS work arounds. In the end the same problem will remain for the web, browsers. Obviously Internet Explorer will still be 9 years behind the rest of the field in taking up the specs so I'll be hacking that shit from my grave, firefox will continue to bloat untill it requires more rescources than Photoshop, and opera will stay looking like a late 90's amature app.. Safari can just fuck off.

Good stuff from google, exciting time to work on the web.

Out of curiosity.... which browser do you use?

Apart from that, Google Wave will also indeed not work within Opera 10, as the implementation the HTML5 standard with the Presto 2.2 engine is not there yet, which is quite ashame.

Any way, hope that I will receive an invite, although I highly doubt it as I have not received one up till now.

However if anyone did get an invite, can you describe how it works. Does it work in fluently in practice as it did within the presentations? And how does it perform on 'slow' Internet connections?

Invited arent going out for another 30 mins

Hehe, I already can see you camping your mail inbox!
I saw a 10min video today (couldn't be arsed to watch the old full lenght video...) presenting all the features and I found it quite interesting!
Will be curious to see how it will establish itself.

You do not deserve it, if you only watched 10 minutes!

I've watched the whole thing a few times

wait 1700 cest doesnt that mean 1800 swedish time?

CEST is the timezone used in Sweden

I am not even sure about the time myself.... BBC just claimed it was 16.00 british time. I doubt it will be long - if they aren't handed out already - since the Google Wave team is headquartered in Australia

Out of curiosity.... which browser do you use?

Apart from that, Google Wave will also indeed not work within Opera 10, as the implementation the HTML5 standard with the Presto 2.2 engine is not there yet, which is quite ashame.

Any way, hope that I will receive an invite, although I highly doubt it as I have not received one up till now.

However if anyone did get an invite, can you describe how it works. Does it work in fluently in practice as it did within the presentations? And how does it perform on 'slow' Internet connections?

I use Firefox because I can't live without firebug, I mean that sincerly as firebug regulates the oxygen on my life support.

Opera have the ony decent approach to the standards of any of the browsers, no corners cut and nothing released until it works properly. As far as the workgroup goes they often seem to be the only company at the table genuinely interested in the future of the web in that they aren't pushing proprietry software or self interest.

You know you can get firebug in all browsers?

I look at a joint.

just stare at it intently and... wait for it to explode? :p

You know you can get firebug in all browsers?

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