Tag Archives: XML

OpenDocumentation

5/27/2005 – 11:05 am

From Tim Bray, we learn that Open Document 1.0 has been approved as an OASIS Standard. The new format will be the standard for the OpenOffice.org office suite. [...]

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Google Maps Dissected

2/9/2005 – 4:06 pm

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. [...]

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