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Sunday, 23 June 2019

Google Earth Now Available for Most Major Web Browsers

Google Earth has been available on the web for just over two years now, but only for Google Chrome. This is because Google built it using Chrome-only technology. As of today, Google Earth is now available in all major web browsers, including Firefox and the new Microsoft Edge, having been completely rewritten.

When Google launched Google Earth for the web for Earth Day 2017, the version that we saw was built using Portable Native Client (or PNaCl) which allows developers to create experiences for the web using “native” code. However, Portable Native Client was never really adopted outside of Chrome.

Google Earth Now Available for Most Major Web Browsers


Instead, web developers, browser developers, and the W3C all agreed upon WebAssembly as the best way to run “native” code in the browser instead of JavaScript. In fact, Google themselves even removed PNaCl support from most parts of Chrome in early 2018.

Six months after that original Google Earth for web launch, during the Chrome Dev Summit 2017, Google demonstrated an early version of Google Earth recreated with WebAssembly. In the year and a half since that event, we’ve heard nothing about when this revamped Google Earth for Web would release.

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