[TriLUG] OT: maps.google.com satellite maps

[Christopher L Merrill]

Jim Wright wrote:
> surprise).  But I am just amazed at what google has in the way of user
> interface just using the built in capabilities of the browser(or at
> least most standards compliant browsers)...I think that gmail and maps
> are truly "revolutionary" applications, and the beauty of it is that
> they were just built on existing technologies, not by reinventing the

They are using a combination of technologies that a writer dubbed "Ajax".
   http://www.javalobby.org/articles/ajax/

C


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