Google Maps Creator Takes Browsers To The Limit

An anonymous reader writes "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."

Comments

right.....

[TheClam]

I think the answer to all of IE's problems is to give it MORE access to my PC.

Everybody...

[Sunkist]

to the limit!

Let the serive begin

[MyLongNickName]

And to begin today's Google worship service, please open to page 152 of your hymnal. Let's begin

"Amaaaaazing Google.... is a search engine
That helps a geek like meeeeeeee
Iiiii once was lost, in the interweb
But now you've show the waaay

T'was Sergey who made the Google god
And Larry who helped him ooooout
How precious was that interface
So simple yet so compleeeeeeet

Through many popups, porn and 404's,
We have already brooooowsed
T'was Google that brought us safe thus far
and Google will lead us home.

Google has promised more to me
Like gmail, maps and blogs.
They own all of our web dayayata
But Google "does no evil"

When we've been browsing for ten hours
and don't know how to thinnnnnnk
we'll log onto Slashdot again
to hear more about Goooooogle."

-- Pastor Google

"Slashdot -- Serving freethinkers since never"