i worked at a geo consult at the same time, boss asked me how to scale up, I suggested gmaps style, his favourite said impossible!
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it was such a weird time. Everybody explained (with persuasive logic!) how it was intractable, except that Google had just done it
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I'm very interested in what exactly they thought was technically infeasible. Do you remember any of their specific complaints?
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It apparently launched in 2005, for IE and Mozilla. IE certainly had VML. True that this was before JS compiled well.
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Meh. It's less about JS (or Flash, which could do then what HTML5 can finally do now). More about the fundamental software architecture.
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