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Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by intergalplan on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @04:27PM (#26961080)
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)

Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by yunyu on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:03PM (#26972868)
Cloudflare browser isolation does this by forwarding Skia commands: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-and-remote-browser-is...
Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by abol3z on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:42PM (#26976523)
That's interesting! Did they release any products based on this technology?
Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster by yunyu on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @09:52PM (#26976582)
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/