Category Archives: Search

Google Maps Dissected

By Dougal | Published: February 9, 2005

Joel Webber has an excellent dissection of how Google Maps works under the hood in his Mapping Google article. Welcome to my blogroll.

Highlights:

Communication with the backend server is done with a hidden <iframe> and some javascript trickery (not with XMLHttpRequest, as Gmail uses).
Data arrives from the server in XML and is transformed into HTML by client-side XSLT. [...]

Also posted in Geolocation, Maps, Software, Tech | Tagged Geography, Google, Java, JavaScript, Location, SEO, Web, XML, XSLT | 2 Comments

New My Yahoo Beta brings RSS to the masses

By Dougal | Published: September 28, 2004

From Jeremy Zawodny’s blog:

Well, we just launched a beta of the next generation of My Yahoo that fits into that reality. Instead of “you can add anything you want, as long as it’s on the list of My Yahoo content” you can now add pretty much any public RSS or Atom feed. In other words, the content model is open.

Let me say that again, just for dramatic effect: the content model is open now.

RSS has slowly been edging into the mainstream for a while now. [...]