[espadrine]

Guacamole is a text protocol. The screen is sent as PNG images in base64. It was built before websockets were compatibly implemented across browsers.

[jchendy]

Any idea what the actual performance impact of that is?

[PhasmaFelis]

For fullscreen 60FPS, it's probably going to increase the bandwidth requirements by an order of magnitude, which will lock out a bunch of users on less-than-ideal connections.