No TABLE support in Google Wave yet

Google Wave seems like a pretty nice little service.

So far, it has not exactly rocked my world.  I use it a little for brainstorming and organizing.

I usually hit a wall when I try to be really detail-oriented with it.  I have been using HTML for over a decade and a half to do that.  I am frustrated by Wave in that it cannot do things that are pretty simple in HTML:  tables, numbered lists, and so forth.

Not being able to do tables is particularly bad.  Outlines are okay for simple stuff.  However, when you are dealing with rich information, you need tables.

I understand it is probably possible to do this by programming a Java gadget.  However, this is not super appealing for several reasons.

It adds an extra dependency, making it somewhat brittle in a couple of ways.
It will be obsolete and difficult to convert from when Google finally adds table support.
It is an extra program to have to write and maintain.

Another thing I discovered recently has to do with tags in Google Wave.  You cannot edit them!  As far as I can tell, once you tag a wave you have no way to edit or delete tags.  It just supports adding more tags.  Tags are not delimited by commas when you enter them either.  The data entry field asks for tags, but assumes you will only put one tag in that field at a time.  Tags are not well-implemented at all at the moment.

Google wave still needs more work to make it a super useful tool in my opinion.  You get out of it what you put into it, so long as you do not put very much into it.  This contrasts sharply to other technologies:  word processing, databases, spreadsheets, email, etc.