Why is this awesome? Because Google are dropping a locked in piece of software (which is bug ridden, and insecure, and has extremely poor performance on anything but Windows).
Just check out Google maps on iPhone Safari:
It supports dragging around to pan, and pinch to zoom. I guess it’s using canvas, html5 goodness.
hasnt it been html for ages?
HTML is gay
Yeah Google Maps website and when you include it on your own site has been HTML for years, Street View is Flash though