Joel Webber has poked around Google Maps and written up how it works. If you’ve been living under a rock last week, Google Maps is a really slick DHTML map application that is fast and responsive…and scrolls! It apparently doesn’t quite work in Safari though.

The writeup is a useful primer on some of the interesting technologies being bundled with 6.0 level browsers…worth reading if you’re into this stuff.

Via Slashdot…check out the other dissections of GMail and Suggest after the link for more reverse engineering fun.