With all the excitement over Google Maps few props have been shouted out to a precursor, Bernhard Seefeld’s map.search.ch, launched in October 2004. And while the current focus of interest in the remote scripting space is on JavaScript’s XMLHttpRequest for passing XML between browser and server in the background (i.e. without loading the HTML page), David Shea points out that “the mapping functionality itself is straight DHTML and image loading, so it works in even non-XMLHttpRequest-enabled browsers.”
