Google Waves - The Basic Structure

Question

Is the wave limited for the exchange of textual information (HTML), or am I assuming that the wave can contain arbitrary data (represented in XML) if it also contains the javascript needed to render in a meaningful way?

I ask because the collaborative document preparation shown in the Google I / O video ad looks very powerful, but there are many other types of documents than plain rtf text. In my case, I will search interactively to develop Gantt charts.

Answer 1

I got access to Google Wave a few days ago, and here is what the source data for their Sokoban game (which supports two players playing simultaneously on the same board) looks like:

<blip> <p _t="title"> </p> <p> <w:gadget author=" [e-mail] " prefs="" state="" title="" url="http://sokoban-server.appspot.com/com.example.simplegadget.client.SokobanGadget.gadget.xml"> <w:pref name="playerAllocation" value="1 1,blixt"> </w:pref> <w:pref name="totalMoves" value="8"> </w:pref> <w:pref name="playerPositions" value="1 4,2"> </w:pref> <w:pref name="rockPositions" value="6 2,2 3,2 14,2 15,2 16,2 4,3"> </w:pref> </w:gadget> </p> </blip> 

So, yes, you can store any data that you like in one clip, with the ability to return to the "time" to see old versions of the data, etc.

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By the way, if you are interested in seeing some kind of code for a robot that sits in the wave and interacts with users, I made one for the game that I am developing: Google Code for multifarce project (and the game in question , it is not yet known and as such is not particularly functional.) The source of the bot is here: a multi-factor source of the wave robot

Basically, all you need to run the bot is the last 14 lines in this code. I like it! =)

Answer 2

There is much to be done in each wave. They have not made all the available functions yet, but here is a link to some samples: http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/ , which includes my Slashdot gadget: http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/ about_app? app_id = 18006 The Slashdot gadget actually takes the RSS feed for Slashdot and displays the latest headlines. Here is the XML: http://www.m1cr0sux0r.com/slashdot.xml alt text http://www.m1cr0sux0r.com/xml.jpg