So in other words, maps.google.com is not a website, it's a hostname that serves data over HTTP to some limited set of proprietary applications. Are they reall

So in other words, maps.google.com is not a website, it's a hostname that serves data over HTTP to some limited set of proprietary applications. Are they really trying to screw up interoperability on the web like some two-bit banking website in 1999 that only worked with Internet Explorer? Does Google not understand that they have more to lose than anyone if retaliatory User-agent sniffing screws up the open web?