I tried to run some of my robots I made for GWave on Wiab. I discovered several issues and inconsistencies - with the most annoying one being lack of support for the WAVELET_SET_TITLE operation. In GWave after setting a title - one can assume the root blip has content that starts with this title - which doesn't hold in Wiab. If the robot tries to apply some annotation to the title - like making it bigger (DigestBotty and WavyEmail bots do this a lot) - they get out of the range which results in error. Also, the title just gets lost - while it is the most important piece of info in the blip.

The issues can be mitigated by simple implementation of wavelet.setTitle operation - by inserting the title text in the beginning of the root blip and making it bold.

If this suggestion sounds good - I have no problem to submit a patch.

The title model is more complex than just inserting text at the beginning and making it bold. See TitleHelper. Unfortunately the robot API implements a model that doesn't match the native wave model and requires rather complex code to adapt between the two. In the model it's possible for a wave to have a title that does not appear in the content, but the robot API munges that up.

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