Google Wave's 'Fail Whale'(wave.google.com)

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http://wave.google.com/maintenance/index.html

11 comments

I wonder if they actually ran this by women. Images of feet are a little dicey for the fairer sex. My sample size of two brought back two creepy's.

zyb0917 anni fa

... the fuck? sorry you guys are sometimes just ridiculous. Can't show feet cause women oppose them? Whats going on in your head?

jeremyw17 anni fa

Twitter's fail whale is universally cute and disarming. If some portion of Wave's audience is skeeved out by the maintenance page with unpleasant feet, it needs fixing. (Especially for unplanned maintenance.)

I've now asked four women. They all had the same negative reaction.

ellyagg17 anni fa

It's a little creepy that women are 100% unanimous that feet are creepy. Is it just male feet? That'd be even creepier.

axod17 anni fa

Also IMHO these are just weird feet - the toe next to the big toe, is longer than the big toe :/ Which isn't usual IMHO.

amanfredi17 anni fa

I know many people who have feet like that (mine included).

kudzoo17 anni fa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortons_toe

crux17 anni fa

Wow, I never would have thought but my girlfriend just said the exact same thing. She doesn't like looking at feet and thinks they're gross.

blueben17 anni fa

My wife thinks the feet could use improvement. That they're a little creepy and look like something out of Oregon Trail.

[deleted]17 anni fa

nishantmodak17 anni fa

Love how the wave(s) [the real ones] come forward and go back - in the animation.

If using 'Google wave' was as good as the image. serene.

[It is not! its a wave storm]

WesleyJohnson17 anni fa

I love to see that they're using jQuery for the animations. I'm anxious to see more people going this route over Flash. Not that there is anything wrong with Flash, and it may very well be better suited for this type of work, I just want to see the uses and plugins for jQuery continue to evolve.

bcl17 anni fa

I sure hope not. Their simple animation spikes one of my cores just to animate some clouds. Not a very efficient way to animate things.

mbrubeck17 anni fa

Newer WebKit browsers use the GPU to accelerate css-transform animations (giving your CPU a break). Check out the example on this page in the latest version of Chrome or Safari, for example:

http://webkit.org/blog/324/css-animation-2/

NathanKP17 anni fa

Thanks for the resource link. I can't wait until Firefox can do this. I want to use webkit animation in my website, but for now they would only work in Safari and Chrome.

rimantas17 anni fa

When I see what Flash does to my CPU on OS X I somehow doubt that it is more efficient.

freddier17 anni fa

Of course, you're not comparing fair examples of SWF vs. jQuery. I guess it's ok to ignore the obvious advantages of Flash if you can bash a full features app or animation compared to the Google Wave error page.

NathanKP17 anni fa

For me, on Mac OS X, flash is much more inefficient than JQuery animation, especially in Safari and Firefox.

jrockway17 anni fa

What's good about using JavaScript and known libraries is that you can just write a userscript to reduce the framerate. With Flash, it would be all or nothing.

JBiserkov17 anni fa

No spikes here...

0-3% in IE 8 Windows 7 64bit Core 2 Duo E6420 @ 2.14 GHz

dualogy17 anni fa

Now, that's Cloud computing in action.

dualogy17 anni fa

Wow, first time ever I got down to zero...

sp33217 anni fa

That's eager, not anxious ;)

WesleyJohnson17 anni fa

You know, I almost used "eager" too. English was never a strong subject for me. Come to think of it, neither was math or science or history. ;)

MikeCapone17 anni fa

What's with the 16 colors graphics?

redorb17 anni fa

probably the best they can do at 7k

http://wave.google.com/maintenance/images/feet.gif

DarkShikari17 anni fa

6k with pngout. They're probably stuck with gif because of IE6.

warfangle17 anni fa

Wave doesn't even work with IE6. It's dicey with IE8 - thus their release of chrome frame.

danohuiginn17 anni fa

Welcome to the web graphics time-warp

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mark_l_watson17 anni fa

I don't think that I have ever seen their web site down, but in the last 3 months (or so), a few times my robots stopped getting event notifications for brief periods of time.

But, hey, the system is in beta. I'm pretty much enthusiastic about Wave: I'm writing a DevX article right now on Wave robot programming, and I have a business idea using the Wave platform that I want to try out.

middus17 anni fa

If I was dependent on Google Wave and confronted with this page when planning to use it, it would probably make me angry. Looks cool, though.

KC8ZKF17 anni fa

At this stage, if you are dependent on Google Wave, you aren't angry, you're mad.

cmelbye17 anni fa

Notice the "preview" under the logo. I don't think it's Google's goal to make their current iteration of Wave highly available and production ready.

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nym17 anni fa

The colors make my eyes hurt. Hitting back to HN is serene in comparison.

zerowolfgang17 anni fa

hmmm, could be prep for this: http://bit.ly/L1a1Q

wheaties17 anni fa

Would love to click on that but those pesky little web-filter things disable URL shorteners here. Anyone care to link a full link?

tdupree17 anni fa

Article Title: Google Wave to be opened for federation today! Yes, for you to host.

Full link: http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/10/30/breaking-google-wa...

alanthonyc17 anni fa

http://thenextweb.com/appetite/2009/10/30/breaking-google-wa...

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sscheper17 anni fa

when will i be able to get a google wave login?

ryandvm17 anni fa

I think that guy has psoriasis.