Google closes Earth API
The search giant in the official blog of Google Geo Developers announced that on December 12, 2015, support for the Google Earth API will be discontinued. Unlike well-known precedents for the closure of popular services, such as Google Reader or Google News, the Google Earth program (both the web version and the desktop client) remains, and the reason for the closure itself is of a technical nature.
In late September last year, Google announced that they were planning to abandon the further use of NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) plug-ins in Chrome and Chromium browsers due to the fact that its architecture was developed more than 15 years ago and no longer meets the new requirements. for security and speed, and mobile browsers do not support this API at all. At the same time, extensions for Chrome, written using NPAPI, stopped working - an exception was made only for the participants of the “white list”, which included Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Java, Google Talk and Facebook Video.
About a month ago, Chrome engineers finally announced a deadline for the complete cessation of support for NPAPI, including those involved in the “white list”. And since the Earth API was just based on the capabilities of the outdated interface, its support will cease almost synchronously with the disabling of NPAPI in Chrome and Chromium.
Alternatively, Google recommends that developers use PPAPI (Pepper API), which, however, is not supported by other browsers and is incompatible with NPAPI, or other technologies like NativeClient ( NaCl ).
In late September last year, Google announced that they were planning to abandon the further use of NPAPI (Netscape Plug-in API) plug-ins in Chrome and Chromium browsers due to the fact that its architecture was developed more than 15 years ago and no longer meets the new requirements. for security and speed, and mobile browsers do not support this API at all. At the same time, extensions for Chrome, written using NPAPI, stopped working - an exception was made only for the participants of the “white list”, which included Silverlight, Unity, Google Earth, Java, Google Talk and Facebook Video.
About a month ago, Chrome engineers finally announced a deadline for the complete cessation of support for NPAPI, including those involved in the “white list”. And since the Earth API was just based on the capabilities of the outdated interface, its support will cease almost synchronously with the disabling of NPAPI in Chrome and Chromium.
Alternatively, Google recommends that developers use PPAPI (Pepper API), which, however, is not supported by other browsers and is incompatible with NPAPI, or other technologies like NativeClient ( NaCl ).
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/364347/
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