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Re:Show HN: Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps by kilburn on Sunday March 10, 2019 @01:45AM (#19350728)
This is a fun experiment, but I cannot see the long-term advantage of what you are doing vs VNC (or similar) on the web.

I'm pretty sure it would take less effort and give better results if you just hooked the viewer to something like a guacamole [1] session tethering you to a remote browser.

http://guacamole.apache.org/

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Re:Show HN: Cloud browser – headless Chrome and image maps by epitactic on Wednesday March 13, 2019 @03:19PM (#19382518)
This is a good point, honestly I didn't consider it, or know of Guacamole but I agree it could be a better solution.

Looking into it more, maybe noVNC or Guacamole, with VNC or RDP, tethered to a remote browser instance. This would solve the problem of user interaction with the web page, which is currently very limited with Cloud Browser's image maps (hyperlinks only). On the other hand it would increase the end-user browser requirements (image maps date back to HTML 3.2! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_map), but still not run the target website's content, so it could be worthwhile and most browsers actively in use now support HTML5.

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