Google Wave Reviewed

Michael_Curator writes "Developers are finally getting their hands on the developer preview of Google's Wave, which means we can finally get some first-hand accounts of what it's really like to use, unfiltered by Google's own programmers. Ben Rometsch, a developer with U.K. Web development firm Solid State, blogged that, it's 'probably the most advanced application in a browser that I've seen.' Wave is like giant Web page onto which users can drag and drop any kind of object, including instant messaging and IRC [Internet Relay Client] clients, e-mail, and wikis, as well as gadgets like maps and video. All conversations, work product and applications are stored on remote servers — presumably forever. 'It's like real time email. On crack,' he wrote. And unlike the typically minimalist Google UI, 'It feels a lot more like a desktop application that just so happens to live in your browser.'" User molex333 has already written a Slashdot app and shares his initial reactions here.

Comments

Re:Great!

[Ortega-Starfire]

>a web browser should never, and I mean NEVER, need half a gig of memory to view my open tabs

Hmm. 512MB of ram should be enough for any web browser?

If it bothers you that much though, just go to your about:config page and edit the

browser.cache.memory.capacity

key to however much ram you think your browser should use.

Re:Great!

[BitZtream]

Yes, that the toggle switch guys were probably right.

Trends like the one you're pointing out are silly to begin with, but that does not mean that there isn't a point where it should end. Just because the first round of guys weren't dead on right with the next level doesn't mean they got the idea wrong, it means they were premature, something I'm sure you're well versed in.