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by sofaofthedamned 3308 days ago
Had a similar one at my last role. It was a HTML5 remote desktop thing with websockets, TLS1.2 etc etc. Got a bug report from a user that it didn't work in Safari. We didn't have a Mac in the office to test with, so asked the user for more details.

"Oh no, this isn't a Mac, it's Windows"

This is a user of a highly secure system, containing user PII, who expected to use it on a 5 year old browser with XP.

~bangs head~
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laughingman2 3308 days ago
In unrelated to topic note, I am in a team making html5 remote desktop thingie, I have to now start making the linux agent.

If its alright for you to answer,

1. What would be the best/cross platform way to proceed?We now have separate agents for windows, mac which causes maintenance hell

2. Is chrome remote's way of streaming desktop images as video better than images + diff.

3. Is there any open source mirror driver kind of thing in linux?

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sofaofthedamned 3308 days ago
The software used was a commercial tool made upon Guacamole (Apache) called Inuvika. It's pretty awful, but having Linux and Windows apps on the same virtual desktop is quite cool. I don't know how much of that functionality comes from Guacamole or from the Inuvika addons.

Inuvika/Guacamole also support plain RDP, but we didn't use this, just the html5 client (browser)

If you want to see what open-source can do then look at Guacamole and go from there.

Don't think that helps, but...

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