Just a crazy idea I had today... GTK now has an HTML5 backend, where as I understand it it's possible to run an app as a "server", and instead of seeing it in a window on the desktop, you interact with it through a web browser. That got me wondering if it'd be possible to have an app appear both in a desktop window *and* a web browser? Say you have an app running on your desktop, you go out somewhere, and you can open the browser on your phone or tablet, enter a URL and password, and see that app window in your browser and interact with it. I think it'd be much better than VNC for mobile, since you'd only be showing one window at a time rather than the entire desktop (I have way too many screens for that) and I'm assuming you'd be able to avoid sending screenshots of the entire window (I'm not sure how the html5 backend works, but I assume it's possible to just send some JS that draws the widgets and whatever base images they use, instead of rendering the entire window on the server). You could possibly even resize the window to fit the device (even if that means having to also resize it on the desktop) instead of having to pan around.
Is this too farfetched, or could it be done? -- Sent from my Game Boy.
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