With the advent of Google Maps I was very hesitant to use them or recommend that others use them. Essentially because I was really afraid about where Google was going with this. Of course my fears have been meaningless and ignored by Google and practically everyone else in the computing world and Google maps are becoming ubiquitous. My point is at that I'm starting to think "if you can't beat them, join them". In my view we are headed into a brave new world. Led, for better or worse, by Google. The rate of change they are pushing is mind boggling. I have wondered for a long time whether they could keep it up - but it seems clear that they are accelerating and deepening. In my view core Drupal needs to "play nice" with google stuff (as well as others). The world is changing. 2-3 years from now the way people use the Web will look different from what it does now. Very different. People will use Drupal if it is relevant to them. Dan
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/google_releases.html http://gears.google.com/
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/