Re:It's Time for Server-Side Browsers
by stcredzero on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:57AM
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You can implement this (somewhat wastefully) using VirtualBox and VNC.
My point above is that there's a vast difference between (1) something being possible by a tech-savvy user spending time to jury-rig a solution, and doing it on a case-by-case basis and (2) the same kind of thing being done as a commodity - something that runs commonly on the platform with no effort on the part of end-users.
Re:It's Time for Server-Side Browsers
by stcredzero on Monday February 21, 2011 @04:53PM
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Maybe there's not as much difference as you might think. Look up Paul Farnell and Litmus. You can listen to his Mixergy interview from January.
He's talking about it working at the same level as a browser where it sees if you have HTML5, and if not falls back to flash, dynamically.
I can't imagine it being a high priority - fiddly, low return, creates huge performance issues. Lots of basic problems - you don't want someone supplying input to a game over a (latent) network. You don't want to be running instances of performance-intensive games on your webserver.
Still - the proposed idea is distinct from VNC or X.