On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 3:05 PM Cedros <cedro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm the author of Myrtille (https://github.com/cedrozor/myrtille), an > open source, clientless, rdp web gateway comparable to Guacamole (just made > for Windows instead of Linux). >
Impressive work! I will for sure take a look at it. > Back in time, I had a look at what can be done into pure Javascript (no > add-on or extension) and it was clearly impossible to make the browser a > native rdp client, removing the need for a translation gateway. > > This WASM project is interesting but just move the complexity into the > browser; I'm not sure it's a good idea to make browsers behave like OSes; I > think it would more interesting the other way around, embedding browser > capabilities into OSes. But both will converge, eventually. > I agree that WASM would move complexity into the browser. However, that could be a good thing if it eliminates the need for an intermediate gateway to re-encodes the RDP stream into png/jpeg/webp images. Avoiding the re-encoding step can probably help improve performance and reduce latency in the RDP session. Or am I misunderstanding something?? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ FreeRDP-devel mailing list FreeRDP-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
