Re: supporting all X (not only gtk+) applications in browser

[Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy gmail com>]

Hi,

> congratulations. you've just reinvented VNC along with TeamViewer and a half
> dozen other "remote video display" systems.
No he didn't. He actually proposed to implement client-side rendering
instead of pushing pixels like broadway does.
After all, any reason you actually confront people quite aggresivly so often?

> In this way, we don't have to transfer pictures -- we are just re-routing the X rendering to the browser.
> Supporting Wayland is also possible, and probably better.
Its simple in theory, but actually extremly hard. There are e.g.
applications which require a read-back of image data from the server
to the client.
Furthermore canvas only implements a very tiny subset of the X
rendering APIs (core and XRender), so you probably need to start with
a software-rendering API for javascript from scratch.
Furthermore, most of the time (with a few exceptions) latency is the
big issue these days, not bandwith.

> Imagine that we can host all sorts of fancy desktop software in central servers in the cloud, and users 
> just have to open the browser, get
> access to remote server, and they can use them!  In this way, all data is stored on the cloud, rather than 
> constantly synch-ing with the server!
So if you think this is such a great idea, get started :)
In case it succeeds, I am sure there are use cases for it.

Regards