Windows remote desktop but all in HTML
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I have just uploaded a windows remote decktop client server application but it needs a client program to be instaled to work and is basicly a program that does a screen grab on the server and it then sends the image across the network to the client. These images are big and slow to send. Well call me stupid but i think it could all be done in HTML so that it works in any browser and it should not be too hard to do if anyone wants to give me a hand. Pulling the current desctop background image from windows is easy and looking in the destop folder to pull the shortcut text and then pulling the icon images should be easy too. The start menu again is just text and icons that could be sent back as a upside down menu in HTML. OK the task bar might need a bit more thinking about but if the worse comes to the worse then a long sideways image and a javascript polling timer would just about fit the bill. floating divs with z-index's would do for application windows and could use a bit of JSON to keep an eye on the X,Y positions. This just leaves the active window to deal with which would need to be sent back over the wire every second but since we know the scaled size of the window then sending it as a smaller .png and resizing it back by streching it to full size or better still doing something with a HTML5 Canvus. It's all just text and images so does anyone want to get involved and work as a team on this one ?