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hm2k | 14 years ago

Google tried it the other way via Google Wave and unfortunately nobody bought into it.

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sylvinus|14 years ago

Regarding the rendering technologies it was exactly the same, a big pile of JS that you need to render actual content.

The main point of the author seems to be that G+ doesn't use progressive enhancement.

hm2k|14 years ago

Jesus, downvotes for mentioning Google Wave.

I was specifically responding to this part: >A web where re-sharing of content is limited by the platform, not by the capabilities of your client. A web where you cannot comment on an article unless registering in a corporate namespace (which kicked you out if you happened to choose a name they do not particularly like).

The point was that Google tried it open, it didn't work. Facebook is closed, they tried that. Is it working?

georgieporgie|14 years ago

Google Wave is probably the single worst introduction of a new technology that I've ever seen. To this day, I have no idea what it actually was or was for. All I know is that it did everything, but nothing, and it did it simultaneously in shared sessions.