You guys have gone totally off-topic. Take it somewhere else.

On Oct 26, 3:03 pm, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Pil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Oct 26, 5:27 pm, Ben Appleton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> >http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_ALL/mapfiles/288e/maps2.api/main.js
>
> >> That is not source code but the "bootstrap", the initial bundle of
> >> configuration data sent to the page when it first loads.  v2 and
> >> maps.google.com likewise used to share code for the bootstrap, and you
> >> see a remnant of this here in maps.google.com.
>
> > Hmm, I wonder why this remnant of maps.google.com gets regularly
> > (about every 10 days) updated, it always points to the latest version
> > of v2.
>
> > And I wonder why v2 and maps.google.com uses the same bootstrap and v3
> > uses another one.
>
> Because Google uses the same server for Maps API v2 as
> maps.google.com, and it serves some shared configuration in their
> bootstraps.
>
> > This file seems a bit big for a "bootstrap", as bootstrap usually
> > indicates that there is bigger file than this one which covers the
> > code. But this bootstrap is the biggest file besides a few smaller
> > modules.
>
> By v2 "bootstrap" I refer tohttp://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2
> (~3kB).  This contains the configuration data and loads the v2 "main
> module"http://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/285c/maps2.api/main.js
> (~100kB).
>
> For comparison the v3 bootstrap 
> ishttp://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false(~0.8kB).  This loads
> the v3 "main module"http://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/api-3/2/9/main.js(~12kB).
>
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