{"id":192,"date":"2007-10-31T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/google-sucks-at-flex\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T01:01:21","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T09:01:21","slug":"google-sucks-at-flex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/31\/google-sucks-at-flex\/","title":{"rendered":"Google sucks at Flex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Am I the only one who’s going to say this? Seems like the Flex blogosphere is drooling<\/a> over<\/a> the concept that Google would do something in Flex<\/a>. But I haven’t heard anyone talk shit about the app. Maybe it’s because it’s 1:30am and I’ve had a few beers, but seriously now, this is what Google comes up with? It’s no wonder the title of the TechCrunch article<\/a> says “But why is it in Flash?” No kidding, this is an awful Flex site. Comparing the Flex version<\/a> with the HTML version<\/a>, I gotta say I like the HTML version more. The HTML site is cleaner and just feels nicer to me (not that I’m a fan of that version either). The Flex version doesn’t add anything you couldn’t just as easily do in plain old HTML. And I happen to think it just simply looks bad. I get a bad taste in my mouth when I look at the app.<\/p>\n

ZOMGZ! They have tabs for web, images, and video?! And they show those annoying snap previews for search results?! And getting to the actual page of a search result now takes two clicks instead of one?!?!<\/p>\n

OK, I’ll stop badmouthing, I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. But come on guys, just because Google does something doesn’t make it the best thing ever. And I realize that from an Adobe standpoint being able to say “Hey, Google did something with Flex” is pretty big, but please, this isn’t the app you want them to make. I call BS.<\/p>\n

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Am I the only one who’s going to say this? Seems like the Flex blogosphere is drooling over the concept that Google would do something in Flex. But I haven’t heard anyone talk shit about the app. Maybe it’s because it’s 1:30am and I’ve had a few beers, but seriously now, this is what Google […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flex","tag-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t