Thursday, February 10, 2005

> Jamie Zawinski: If you haven't seen Google Maps yet, check it out: it's pretty impressive! If, like me, you're too lazy to read the source to figure out how they accomplished it, that's fine, because this guy has posted an analysis. Short version: lots of transparent PNG overlays, and communication with the server by treating a hidden IFRAME as a socket.
[jwz]   12:21:51 AM  Link  Google It!