[X2go-dev] X2go-dev Digest, Vol 28, Issue 24

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Thu Apr 21 22:30:25 CEST 2011


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> Hi Brian,
> 
> Am 21.04.2011 16:15, schrieb brian mullan:
> > Since this had been a "future" development discussion a while back
> > (re
> > possible use of HTML5 in x2go) I thought I'd pass this on.
> > 
> > Just stumbled on this announcement of noVNC (LGPL3) and saw they
> > now
> > implement HTML 5 (websockets and canvas)
> > 
> > http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/
> 
> Thank you very much. I'm still looking for a good approach how to use
> the features of the "webcanvas". As you all know, vnc updates squares
> on
> the the screen, no matter what they show. The only trigger is, that
> there has changed something inside.
> The webcanvas has got capabilities of drawing primitives too. This
> way
> it could be possible to draw window manager and toolkit elements
> directly with code. Maybe it would be an idea to investigate time on
> that, because I still believe that one of the biggest advantages of
> nx
> is that it is possible to use the local Display-Technique/X-Server as
> rendering base.
> Nevertheless - I haven't found a complete X-Server on javascript base
> and I still don't know if it is already possible...
> Mabye we should a page on our wiki with collected links regarding
> this
> topic (future technologies?).
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Heinz

Good idea Heinz as it saves "I am sure I ready about something before :)"
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Thanks, Phil



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