When I was at Yahoo, maps dude spent hours explaining how impossible JS maps would be the week GMaps came out. I bet he works at Android now
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Replying to @Pinboard
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 mean, to do it they basically had to invent the entire thought-pattern and technology behind AJAX. So the naysayers had a point.
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Outlook express had Ajax?
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Replying to @mattmoehr @Pinboard
I meant outlook web access https://hpbn.co/xmlhttprequest/
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"Draft specification for XHR was only published in 2006, well after XHR came into widespread use!"
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Goes on to say that for all practical purposes the spec was text only until 2008. I don't know the date of meeting that
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... reported Yahoo geo said gmaps was impossible, but I think the link you sent supports my point: Gmaps was a paradigm shift in the web
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it wasn’t the JS stuff Yahoo dude thought was impossible, it was re-rendering all the map tiles
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So they didn't get idea of making a little tiles and streaming them in? (I'm a map nerd. The history of slippy maps fascinates me.)
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Replying to @mattmoehr @Pinboard
did he mean pre cooking titles? there's quite a few involved!
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