[Geowanking] Slashdot: Google Maps Creator takes Browsers to the Limit

[Drew from Zhrodague]

 	Figured you guys might find this interesting. I think there are 
few posts here as of late that don't mention Google. Here's another one:


"Addressing a crowd of developers in Sydney today, Google Maps creator 
Lars Rasmussen encouraged them to embrace bleeding edge technology in 
browser software. He cited the example of how Google Maps can command 
Internet Explorer to use VML (Vector Markup Language by Microsoft) to 
display a blue line between geographical points, but use a PNG graphic 
format and a linear description for the Firefox browser." From the 
article: "Firstly, the Web allows rapid deployment and there is no 
software for users to install. It's also much easier to make sure code 
runs on multiple browsers compared with multiple operating systems like 
Mac OS X and Windows. The downside is that browsers don't give programmers 
full access to a computer's resources such as memory, process power and 
hard disk space. This is a bottleneck the engineer sees being removed in 
future, although he thinks the simplicity of the current Web browsing 
experience needs to be maintained."

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/28/1219219&tid=217&tid=156&tid=95


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