Embedding Google Maps
I am both thrilled and worried about Google releasing a simple way to <embed>1 Maps into our web pages and blog posts.
Thrilled obviously because I get to include maps of our excursions2. Maps, narration and pictures when presented together give readers an amazing sense of completeness of, say, a travelogue for example.
Worried because embedding or inserting objects come with their own headaches—in terms of site validation. If it is going to be like the Youtube insert code, then I’d rather continue with what I’ve been doing all along—just link to the long URL instead.
So here’s hoping that Google Maps inserts are going to validate by default.
- Or insert
<object>, whichever Google pushes by default. [←] - A habit I have picked-up in recent times. [←]