I went through hell making sure my websites were compatible with the brand new Google Chrome browser and I went so far to blow off a few extra hours making sure Safari support was good… I’ve even (believe it or not) had to make changes to accomodate Firefox when they release newer versions.

Let’s not forget who came up with the XHHTPRequest, The build in WYSIWYG editor capabilities and innerHTML…

I think Google just has a bunch of hacks working for them who can’t put the extra effort forward to make it work.

I mean come on… WAVE is a server side technology… The least you could do is put the effort forward like the GMAIL team did to support every browser.

Wave sucks and this is a big black mark on how I feel about the company as a whole…

Next time, more quite place so we can talk properly.

Morgan,

Yes, great meeting again!
Maybe Sweden in the future, if you get lured back here…

Hopefully we can meet in Sweden one day

My big issue is with HP PC and laptop support services. Or Unsupported disservices, is more like it. You buy a pc with a 64 bit processor, you expect to have full 64 bit support and have drivers made available for it, even though HP was stupid enough to ship it with a 32 bit OS. But noooo, that’s asking too much these days. I was told flat out and point blank, less than one y ear after I bought my DV8305US Pavilion laptop, that if I wanted driver support from HP for a 64 bit OS, I needed to go out and buy a new laptop. Less than a year after I bought it.

Used to be a time, when I worked in the computer industry in IT services departments, I would very highly recommend HP period. Now because of how I was treated, unless it is given to me for free, you won’t find me acquiring a new HP product ever again. Even if I have to spend more for an inferior one from someone else.

Well, no regrets – I guess it was good I did it, I learned something and have now moved on.

Olof,

Again, thank you for a great time and a fantastic conference!

It’s a nice idea, although that requests that the server would know to handle it, as opposed to Resource packages who will, well mostly, work out-of-the box for any web site on any server.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/offline.html

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Offline_resources_in_Firefox

http://code.google.com/apis/gears/tutorial.html

I guess zip is just a safer way that will more easily work in all web browsers on all platforms, but it’s an interesting idea.

Jeena,

The Expires headers/Etags you set for the ZIP file will apply to all files within it, i.e. nothing needs to be re-downloaded.

Alexander Limi’s comment about SPDY:

While this effort from Google aims to make everything faster, it is largely orthogonal to what we’re trying to do with Resource Package. It also requires you to retrofit both web browsers and web servers to make it work, which means it will take quite a while before this will be in common use. Resource Packages work without any changes to the web server software, and will work as soon as any browser supports it — with no adverse effects to the browsers that don’t.