The FAQ of Google Wave Protocol says that [HTML] "does not have desirable properties" and that "HTML makes OT (Operational Transforms) difficult if not impossible" [1]. Why is this so? What problems arise if HTML is treated simply as plain text and then OT applied?

  1. http://www.waveprotocol.org/faq#TOC-What-s-the-XML-schema-for-waves-Why
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