At this year’s Google I/O, we’ve had a taste of this very sweet thing called Google Wave. I’m totally sold, this thing really is email invented and I think once people realize how powerful it is, and when people try it of course, which is easy, Google is the most visited site on the Internet, it will explode in popularity.
And since it’s a protocol, open source above that, so not just a Google thing, I’m positive Wave is going to replace e-mail in a complete fashion very quickly.
But how far can a product go at making things more popular. If you noticed, the demo runned on Chrome 2 and Safari 4, the two biggest Webkit-based browsers on market today. Why? Because Google Wave requires HTML 5 features not yet implemented in other browsers (except Opera 10 maybe). Yup yup, even Firefox doesn’t support it and of course IE is far from that.
Google Wave is so entrenched in HTML 5 that some things weren’t even implemented in HTML 5 yet and Google is proposing those new capabilities to the WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group).
So although we’ll have answers to that much later, I was wondering: Can Google push Webkit browsers to glory and forcibly integrate new features in HTML 5 because of Wave?
Post your theories in the comments.
