This project actually made me think that, since the X-Window protocol is practically a dead-end and everything's gotta be made with web tech now (ugh), it'd be really cool to have a version of FF or Chrome that's smart enough to send some kind of render instructions between a server-instance and a client-instance. Process server-side, render client-side, like X-Window but for web junk.

(the notion that this is completely fucking absurd since those "render instructions" are called "HTML" and I'm just describing server-side rendering isn't lost on me, but it's not my fault things have gotten so bad that having a server-side browser forward draw commands from bloated "web apps" to a resource-light client might actually be kinda nice)

Cloudflare browser isolation does this by forwarding Skia commands: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-remote-browser-is...

That's interesting! Did they release any products based on this technology?

Yes, but it seems like it's only available to enterprise customers trying to allow selective access to things behind the firewall: https://www.cloudflare.com/teams/browser-isolation/

Yeah, but this is a VC backed venture, they won't do that.

The cloud could be the worst thing that can happen to the Internet.

Privacy and Ownership should not be treated as abstract ideas.

> The cloud could be the worst thing that can happen to the Internet

Is this not the same as saying "The internet could be the worst thing that can happen to the Internet"?

You can just use NX, RDP, Splashtop or even Chrome Remote Desktop.

You can also use Opera Mini in MicroEmulator for server-side rendering of web pages.