Xpra: Ticket #2165: modernize the html5 client

The code is old and ugly. We should take advantage of modern browser technologies to cleanup the code.



Tue, 26 Feb 2019 09:24:07 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed

Some useful pointers:

Other html5 tickets worth looking into:


Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:55:14 GMT - Antoine Martin: milestone changed

I'm not getting any help on this, and I still firmly believe that JavaScript is an awful language. So don't expect miracles.


Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:45:14 GMT - Praecantatio:

All is not yet lost: there are two forks with potential:

https://github.com/andersevenrud/xpra-html5-client

https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/blob/master/src/smc-webapp/frame-editors/x11-editor/xpra/README.md

For even greater performance and speed, might want to consider WASM and WebRTC


Fri, 14 Feb 2020 03:20:17 GMT - Antoine Martin:

For even greater performance and speed, might want to consider WASM and WebRTC

FWIW:


Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:28:07 GMT - Praecantatio:

Why not WebRTC?


Sat, 28 Nov 2020 12:51:15 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Why not WebRTC?

Maybe one day: #1338


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:43:56 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2165