Thursday, May 11th, 2006
Google Maps SVG Support
Category: Google
One of the beauties of the web is deployment. A service can be updated without you the user knowing. Google Maps has added SVG support for browsers that support it (Firefox, Opera) to match their VML support for IE.
This is a lot better than the transparent PNG solution and prevents the server-client roundtrip.
It also means that if you print directions, you get the lines :)
Getting SVG support like this is great for the SVG community.
4.3 rating from 40 votes
does this include custom controls and bubbles?
title correct? should be SVG not subversion
Jim: Thanks, fixed.
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