One of my major gripes against Wave is that there is no good way to link. If you copy and paste the URL, it never autolinks, and if it does, then it totally epic fails in the process for most content systems. The URLs are insanely long, and totally ignores the federated nature. If you want a federated protocol you shouldn’t do links by copy and pasting client URLs.
Similar to the mailto: protocol used in HTML. I think a wave: protocol would be far more suitable. HTML5 has this feature called navigator.registerProtocolHandler which while part of the recommendation, is only implemented by Firefox 3.0+
How awesome is this new linking system? Well, the great thing is that Extracting the URL is totally easy:
That’s the URL, copy and paste it to a browser and it will open in google wave (well the software can be configured to open up in any wave client which is why this is so important)! You get to totally get rid of all the stuff before that makes it specific to
