You’ve had the ability to embed waves on websites before, but there was one major problem; the only people that could view it were other Wave users. That all changes today, as embedded waves are now visible to everyone!
This is a big step forward, and certainly makes Wave a killer liveblogging tool. The one catch is that this doesn’t work in Internet Explorer (even with the Google Chrome Frame), but they’ll be fixing that soon. If you want to try it yourself, just use this simple tool.
Want to see it in action? Just scroll down. I’ve embedded a wave in this post to try it out. Can you see it?
google.load(“wave”, “1″);
google.setOnLoadCallback(initialize);
function initialize() {
var waveframe = document.getElementById(“waveframe”);
var embedOptions = {
target: waveframe,
header: true,
toolbar: true,
footer: true
};
var wavePanel = new google.wave.WavePanel(embedOptions);
wavePanel.loadWave(“googlewave.com!w+Lis328SqA”);
}
While most of us can (and do) use browsers other than Internet Explorer, many people in corporate environments don’t have the ability to do that. This plug-in takes care of that for them, and should give them a great way to use Google Wave. If you’d like to see developer’s information about the Chrome Frame, you can