I love how Google isn't trying to take over the web, but are trying to force advance it. I assume you've read about the new SPDY protocol? I'd love to get my hands on the whitepaper for that.Does IE support HTML5? If it doesn't, that might be why... Wave uses HTML5 and a bit of gears for the image upload stuff though it should all be HTML5 once the standards Google is trying to set are standardized .
And much love to you Dan for the invite.