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HTML5/javascript X11 server?

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We have an application which consumes a large amount of data. Currently a desktop app, but we would like to deliver it via the browser.

It doesn't make sense to me to create a web app where we need to transfer a ll the data used for the visualizations.

We're looking at RDP and some products out there that provide RDP access via a fully javascript client. They seem to work well with our app, but I've been thinking about what it would take to move off Windows.

Switching the front end so that it could run under Linux would not be trivial, but not impossible, so the main stumbling block would be delivery.

I was wondering if there are any X11 javascript servers out there, but have not found any leads.

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bpeikes Avatar asked Oct 24 '13 04:10

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Use xpra's builtin html5 client, it supports any application you can run on an X11 desktop.

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totaam Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 06:09

totaam

AFAIK, recent GTK has been ported to HTML5+Javascript in Gtk Broadway

And you could make your application a web application, for instance by using Wt, or by making it an HTTP server thru specialized HTTP server libraries like libonion, libmicrohttpd etc.

By using AJAX techniques (e.g. thru jquery) your application won't transmit all the display data to the browser at once (but only incrementally and only the actually shown data).

You might also consider fastcgi as a way to connect your application to some web server.

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Basile Starynkevitch Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 06:09

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