{"id":285,"date":"2006-10-31T12:34:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/31\/google-maps-now-uses-svg\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T18:34:40","slug":"google-maps-now-uses-svg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/31\/google-maps-now-uses-svg\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps Now Uses SVG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/25\/microsoft-live-local-now-uses-svg\/\">reported<\/a>  many months ago that Microsoft's <a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/\">Virtual Earth<\/a> web app was using <span class=\"definition\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/span> to render path data when getting directions.  At the time, I complained that <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a> was not yet doing it, though their code looked like it supported it.  I was looking for directions and decided to check it out using Firefox's DOM Inspector - and sure enough, they are using SVG now to draw the path data in Firefox 2 (and using Microsoft's <span class=\"definition\" title=\"Vector Markup Language\">VML<\/span> in Internet Explorer).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"definition\" title=\"Suspiciously?\">Ironically<\/span>, Virtual Earth looks like it has much  more functionality, yet most of it is broken in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox 2<\/a> (not in Firefox 1.5).  For instance, the paths are not showing up for me in Firefox 2.  Furthermore, Virtual Earth seem completely broken in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera 9<\/a> which is a significant step backwards from 5 months ago.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reported many months ago that Microsoft&#8217;s Virtual Earth web app was using SVG to render path data when getting directions. At the time, I complained that Google Maps was not yet doing it, though their code looked like it supported it. I was looking for directions and decided to check it out using Firefox&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35,36,41,25,46,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ajax","category-firefox","category-google","category-opera","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}