So is waver. It's just an Air app pretending to be a mobile browser to
make google wave adapt to a small screen.

On 24 Okt, 22:44, Torben Weis <[email protected]> wrote:
> To the best of my knowledge, GetWaveBoard is simply embedding a web browser
> which runs Google Wave.
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> Torben
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> 2009/10/24 Thomas Wrobel <[email protected]>
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> >  Ive noticed a few standalone wave apps;
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> >http://www.getwaveboard.com/
> >  and
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> >http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/marketplace/index.cfm?event=marketplace....
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> > I wonder how they are communicating with Googles severs. Are they
> > emulating googles protobuffers or have they found a different method?
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> > 2009/10/24 ThomasWrobel <[email protected]>:
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> > > It is certainly better discussing on Wave.
> > > That said, not much has happened in the c/s Wave recently.
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> > > Ive copied the posts below since Oct6. Sorry for the bad layout, but I
> > > hope it helps get an idea whats going on.
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> > > Rémy Sanchez:
> > > I also think that XMPP is better... Even though that JSON would be
> > > easier to handle for JS (and then we could do a HTTP binding of the
> > > protocol and have easily pure JS clients running in the browser, which
> > > by the way would be atrociously slow and heavy),
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> > > Burak Yiğit KAYA:
> > > No it won't =) I will also allow you to write many JS based clients on
> > > various platforms like AIR.
> > > XMPP is widely tested and experienced. And you can handle XML from
> > > most of languages. And there is already a lot that have been done with
> > > XMPP (including re-usable libraries). And XMPP was made to be
> > > extensible. That makes a lot of arguments :)
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> > > William Edney:
> > > Actually, XML is pretty easily handled inside of a browser - I've done
> > > a *lot* of it, including writing a lot of XMPP handling inside of a
> > > browser. It's really not that bad (and there are JS libraries to
> > > handle it). I wouldn't want to see the C/S protocol 'corrupted' for
> > > everyone else just because JSON is easy to handle in the browser. Do
> > > the protocol right... us browser guys will adjust :-).
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> > > Rémy Sanchez:
> > > Hell yes, and moreover what we want is not at all a web client...
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> > > Oct 11
> > > [email protected]:
> > > I dare you to find a reasonably common language which does not have a
> > > json handling lib.
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> > > Rémy Sanchez:
> > > Ada has none :)
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> > > [email protected]:
> > > well, shucks, you got me, otoh I contend that if someone actually
> > > feels up to writing a wave server or client in ada then this little
> > > bit of work :http://json.org/won't be much of an issue, especially
> > > in ada.
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> > > Oct 6
> > > William Edney:
> > > Well, what some us want is a *different* web client - but that's
> > > ok :-)
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> > > Angus Turner:
> > > yes we want a different web client as well, i think people would
> > > prefer a client that doesn't take up 256mb of ram
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> > > Oct 6;
> > > Rémy Sanchez:
> > > however, I think that doing a thiner web client will be difficult..
> > > After all, Google's got good engineers I think... I hardly belive that
> > > they made a slow and heavy interface on purpose.
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> > > Elliott Cable:
> > > I do believe they did. They consider that an okay thing, because they
> > > think of it as a web application, and that changes how engineers like
> > > us think. Somebody setting out to right a light, less–featured client,
> > > that actually runs worth crap, could certainly do so.
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> > > ✿Melissa✿ Elliott:
> > > Off-topic: It seems all the deleted blips don't show up as being
> > > deleted in the playback. Is this coming Real Soon Now or is the
> > > playback just bugged?
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> > > Oct 7
> > > Angus Turner:
> > > i think lars mentioned that when i was speaking to him....
> > > but he didn't say when it would be implemented
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> > > Oct 8
> > > Elliott Cable:
> > > Lars was talking about them showing up when you visited first after
> > > they were deleted, not during Playback.
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> > > Melissa, sounds like a bug to me. They should already be showing up in
> > > Playback, and have been for me (at least, when I last got Playback to
> > > actually work on a wave, which was something like a month ago, I think
> > > d-:)
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> > > Oct 15
> > > Darkflame:
> > > Speaking personaly, I dont have a preferance for XMPP or JSON...I
> > > think I could adapt well enough to either. As long as theres a nicely
> > > documented standard, that hopefully all wave severs will support, I'm
> > > happy.
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> > > Is it time to have a vote box at the top of this thread or too soon?
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> > > [email protected]:
> > > well, some of the other threads have moved on and deal exclusively
> > > with how to implement the protocol over XMPP, no need to vote ;)
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> > > Oct 18
> > > Okdokie. So whats the plan...as a community we make a implementation
> > > then nudge google and hope they take it onboard?
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> > > [email protected]:
> > > I think that the most efficient way would simply to do that, pour our
> > > efforts into alternative implemenations and try to make them
> > > compatible with the apis that google offers, this way we can leverage
> > > the gadgets / robots / apps that we build on this preview, while also
> > > being able to extend the reach and flexibility of the 'wave platform'.
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> > > David Hubbard:
> > > It's also probably a good idea to put some effort into extending
> > > fedOne, as google is already committed to maintaining it -- so they
> > > are predisposed to look favorably on patches to it.
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> > > Darkflame:
> > > So, as person working in a group that needs c/s for our project, whats
> > > the best course of action for us?
> > > We are very keen to get started asap, but it seems very hard to do
> > > much without it. What can we do to assist or encourage the adoption of
> > > a standard c/s protocol?
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> > > Oct 23
> > > [email protected]:
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> > > The best is probably to provide a library to the group that basically
> > > implements your version of the C/S Protocol and be ready for it to be
> > > ripped apart and changed. So your best bet is to buidl an abstraction
> > > layer on top of that library for your client that can easily be
> > > adapted to the evolving protocol. And of course keep a close eye on
> > > these discussions.
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> --
> ---------------------------
> Prof. Torben Weis
> Universitaet Duisburg-Essen
> [email protected]

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