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by sbysb 1652 days ago
I actually disagree tbh - web browsers are so ubiquitous at this point that I would consider them a core part of the desktop at this point. If I can use just the "core tools" of my OS to access something I would consider that clientless for all intents and purposes
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Moreover, something VNC has so many variants that one server might only support one client vs another. So even with a standardized “client”, you can still have issues. I don’t think this is much of an issue with RDP, but by using HTML5, this just avoids that entire issue.
It's hard to believe this was 20+ years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....