Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Hacking SVG into Google Maps
This morning Ruud Steltenpool pointed me to a cool post on Jibbering where the author hacks in SVG support in the new beta version of Mozilla in Google Maps:
"The Google Maps API uses VML in Internet Explorer for drawing polylines over the top of the map - for directions etc. In the other supported browsers though, it renders transparent pngs on the server, so a higher bandwidth load, and not so neat for the user. SVG shares a lot in common with VML, so I decided to see if I could hack SVG support into the Google Maps API code in the SVG Enabled Deer Park."
"The Google Maps API uses VML in Internet Explorer for drawing polylines over the top of the map - for directions etc. In the other supported browsers though, it renders transparent pngs on the server, so a higher bandwidth load, and not so neat for the user. SVG shares a lot in common with VML, so I decided to see if I could hack SVG support into the Google Maps API code in the SVG Enabled Deer Park."
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