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by shadowcats 4542 days ago
Something that would be cool: implementing X-Windows in JS, using HTML for rendering. So you could run your desktop applications remotely in the browser.

You'd have to tunnel the X protocol somehow to Ajax or Websockets, of course, but that should be quite easy.

Edit: I ran into this: http://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2011/03/15/gtk-html-backend-upd...