How Does GMaps Avoid the Cross-Domain Browser Restriction?

[A. Shore]

Clearly, it does, but how?  A  reading of  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same_origin_policy tells me that I'm misinterpreting it.

Thanks for any insights on this.

[Chad Killingsworth]

The standard workarounds: JSONP and dynamic script node insertion. There are extra concerns when dealing with CANVAS cross-domain that the team has spoken about at Google I/O.