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Re:Google Earth Redesigned by jonathanpoulter on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:03AM (#14138867)
Could they presumably write it as a non-native app? Would there be any issues with that? Presumably the "chrome" around a webpage isn't particularly intensive?
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Re:Google Earth Redesigned by adrianN on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @10:15AM (#14138960)
Firefox wants to do that:

https://github.com/browserhtml/browserhtml

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Re:Google Earth Redesigned by collinmanderson on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @09:56AM (#14147709)
Can't do cross-origin requests. It would need to be an electron-style app.
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