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Why do I have the thought, that this is really not about Chrome? How about "Mighty Makes ${xyz} Faster"? Its VNC. And Cloudflare has pitched same [0] with dif

Why do I have the thought, that this is really not about Chrome? How about "Mighty Makes ${xyz} Faster"? Its VNC. And Cloudflare has pitched same [0] with different value dimension (security). [0] https://www.cloudflare.com/teams/browser-isolation/ https://www.cloudflare.com/teams/browser-isolation/

sergiomattei 5y ago
Ah, classic HN. There can't possibly be a post on here about something new without someone going off about how $more_complex_technology already exists. It's easier to use.
- jraph 5y ago
  Your parent probably meant that there is nothing specific to Chrome in this technology, which / because it looks like VNC, not that the technology is useless because there is already VNC.
- ProAm 5y ago
  It's because we're not impressed with people reinventing the wheel and putting a new sticker on it. History repeats itself. We've seen it before. Maybe this is drastically different, innovative or helpful, but so far its just meh.
SandPhoenix 5y ago
I've been following Mighty's development for a while through the founder's twitter. It seems to me like they are doing so much more than putting Chrome behind VNC. They've been doing a lot of deep technical work [0] to make sure that the experience of using Chrome through Mighty is as frictionless as possible, like delving into Chrome's scrolling algorithm to get it just right [1]. I don't think it's fair to dismiss what they've achieved on the basis that VNC can do it too, but much worse. [0] https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1337251861175230469 https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1337251861175230469 [1] https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1259516709074956291 https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1259516709074956291
liuliu 5y ago
VNC let you choose between slow or low-quality. Low-latency (in terms of <10ms) high-fidelity (4k@60fps) video streaming is not a solved problem. It is hard engineering.
stri8ed 5y ago
How does interactions with local resources e.g. uploading a file work with Mighty, or VNC?

sergiomattei 5y ago

Ah, classic HN. There can't possibly be a post on here about something new without someone going off about how $more_complex_technology already exists. It's easier to use.

jraph 5y ago
Your parent probably meant that there is nothing specific to Chrome in this technology, which / because it looks like VNC, not that the technology is useless because there is already VNC.
ProAm 5y ago
It's because we're not impressed with people reinventing the wheel and putting a new sticker on it. History repeats itself. We've seen it before. Maybe this is drastically different, innovative or helpful, but so far its just meh.

SandPhoenix 5y ago

I've been following Mighty's development for a while through the founder's twitter. It seems to me like they are doing so much more than putting Chrome behind VNC. They've been doing a lot of deep technical work [0] to make sure that the experience of using Chrome through Mighty is as frictionless as possible, like delving into Chrome's scrolling algorithm to get it just right [1]. I don't think it's fair to dismiss what they've achieved on the basis that VNC can do it too, but much worse. [0] https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1337251861175230469 https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1337251861175230469 [1] https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1259516709074956291 https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1259516709074956291

liuliu 5y ago

VNC let you choose between slow or low-quality. Low-latency (in terms of <10ms) high-fidelity (4k@60fps) video streaming is not a solved problem. It is hard engineering.

stri8ed 5y ago

How does interactions with local resources e.g. uploading a file work with Mighty, or VNC?