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Re:Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service by Pegasis on Friday July 03, 2020 @06:44AM (#23722860)
Is it like GeForce now but for webpages?
Re:Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service by mrskitch on Friday July 03, 2020 @12:00PM (#23725098)
Yeah, you can definitely think of it like that
Re:Show HN: Quik – Internet Explorer as a Service by Pegasis on Friday July 03, 2020 @07:46PM (#23728666)
I tried browserless.io, it sends every frame as picture from the backend to the browser. I suppose quik will use the same technology?

While supporting IE without any developer work is very impressive, I think quik has some limitions: 1. requres a lot of bandwidth, a place using IE has a high chance don't have a modern internet infrastructure, thus limiting concurrent users. 2. Playing video is basically impossible because intraframe compression is just not efficient enough even on a good network.