{"id":77,"date":"2007-05-10T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/didnt-have-to-install-anything-my-ass\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T10:11:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T18:11:54","slug":"didnt-have-to-install-anything-my-ass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/didnt-have-to-install-anything-my-ass\/","title":{"rendered":"didn’t have to install anything my ass"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just had a funny IM conversation with my friend who works at Googs, I sent him the link for the Flash globe from Poly9 that I just saw on MXNA. The description reads “Poly9 FreeEarth is a cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe which does not require any download.” Turns out it wasn’t quite so easy \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Doug McCune<\/strong>: http:\/\/freeearth.poly9.com\/<\/a> eventually we’ll get google earth in flash <\/p>\n

Google Employee<\/strong>: i don’t see anything when i go to the page<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: ha. really? like nothing at all?<\/p>\n

GE<\/strong>: doesn’t look like it’s ready for primetime. no earth<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: well, so much for that then<\/p>\n

GE<\/strong>: do you see anything?<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: yeah, a spinning 3d earth<\/p>\n

GE<\/strong>: using firefox? do you need flash 9?<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: probably. it’s definitely flash player, probably 9<\/p>\n

GE<\/strong>: hold on. geez, didn’t have to install anything my ass<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: haha<\/p>\n

GE<\/strong>: don’t have priveleges. hold on. god dammit<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: haha, it’s not that cool, not worth the effort<\/p>\n

GE<\/strong>: oh, i’m sure it’s not. i just want to show you how big a pain in the ass it is. i’ll tell you when i get it…<\/p>\n

DM<\/strong>: I’m timing you. I’ll send the report to adobe<\/p>\n

Google Employee disconnected<\/p>\n

I assume this was a restart. He didn’t come back on IM though, so god knows. So while us Flash\/Flex guys keep bragging about 80-90% flash player 9 penetration, we gotta still remember that we can’t claim that anything we make “does not require any download”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just had a funny IM conversation with my friend who works at Googs, I sent him the link for the Flash globe from Poly9 that I just saw on MXNA. The description reads “Poly9 FreeEarth is a cross-browser, cross-platform 3D globe which does not require any download.” Turns out it wasn’t quite so easy […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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