I believe the problem at hand is that there is only a Firefox plugin available. If a display could be delivered via HTML5 then it becomes truly portable. I could walk into a cyber-cafe (and yes am aware of security concerns) and connect to my work computer using FF, IE, CHROME, or any other HTML5 browser. That would make a very powerful business tool indeed. We've seen considerable (though yet unmeasured) performance improvement by removing the cygwin shim in Windows environments. I'd imagine adding
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 15:51 +0000, --[ UxBoD ]-- wrote: <snip> the overhead of HTTP would significantly degrade performance (just a hunch). However, I thought Trolltech had released a Qt stsyle toolkit for web applications that was cross platform. That may be what Heinz and Alex are investigating as a multi-browser solution. If I recall correctly, this is one of their very high priorities - John