Comment by sprout
16 years ago
Wave may have been an idea whose time is yet to come.
When I played around with the beta my brother and I agreed that it was too slow to be useful. That was the last time I touched it.
This was mostly because I was working in a company where getting people to document was enough of a difficulty without introducing new software. If I'd worked somewhere with a bunch of early-adopters, it would have been a fantastic tool.
On the other hand, Wave seems like a tool that almost replicates all of the benefits of being in the same room as someone. I don't think there's a better way to do a distributed workplace. (Of course, I haven't tried.)
> When I played around with the beta my brother and I agreed that it was too slow to be useful. That was the last time I touched it.
Slow? I can only assume people who said this weren't using the latest FF or Chrome. I've never considered Wave slow at all.
The Chrome team valiantly tried to incorporate it into our design process, but stopped using it precisely because it was painfully slow.
At the beginning, on Firefox, it was soul-deadeningly slow.