Google Wave: The Protocol

Created: 2020-09-07T09:46:51+00:00

• Document: items + positions
• Blip: a series of items
• Operations: skip, insert and delete content
• Composition: merging operations across versions of a document
• Conversation: blips + threads

conversation
blip id=foo
thread
blip neep
blip nope
thread
blip wop
blip id=bar

• Blip document: elements + annotations

body
line
Some text goes here and it has a style and links
image

Annotations mark object offsets (each character is also an object) and spans where rich text or hyperlinks appear.