Re: supporting all X (not only gtk+) applications in browser

[aix64 <hossein aix64 gmail com>]

I can't clearly tell what specifically you're asking, whether the 
"network" or the client-server interaction for fetching the data.

Please be more specific, AND:
reply to the list (gtk-devel-list gnome org) not to me :-D since this 
way only "I" get your email.
Send to list so that everyone can see it and grasp what I could be missing.
;-)

On 01/09/13 23:34, Yuhao Zhu wrote:
> Thanks!  I saw the following comments on that implementation:
>
> Each toplevel window is mapped to a canvas element, and the content in
> the windows is updated by streaming commands over a
> multipart/x-mixed-replace XMLHttpRequest that uses gzip Content-Encoding
> to compress the data. Window data is pushed as region copies (for
> scrolling) and image diffs. Images are sent as data: uris of
> uncompressed png data.
>
> Input is gathered via dom events and sent to the server using websockets.
>
> Right now this is Firefox 4 only, but it could be made to work in any
> browser with websockets.
>
>
> I am confused since on one hand, it is "steaming commands" and on the
> other hand it is transferring images (png data).  Why do we have to go
> through the network to transfer data?  The only reason I can think of is
> that it assumes that the client machine that runs firefox doesn't have
> X/gtk+ installed?
>
>
>
> Yuhao
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 3:54 AM, aix64 <hossein aix64 gmail com
> <mailto:hossein aix64 gmail com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Yes, great idea but I'd advice you to google strongly first, since
>     you can find this in GTK+3 documentation:
>
>     "Using GTK+ with HTML5
>
>     The GDK Broadway backend provides support for displaying GTK+
>     applications using HTML5 and Web sockets. To run your application in
>     this way, select the Broadway backend by setting
>     GDK_BACKEND=broadway. Then you can make your application appear in a
>     web browser by pointing it at http://127.0.0.1:8080. Note that you
>     need to enable web sockets in your web browser."