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> Not that we couldn't come up with a fast-over-the-network protocol. It's just that it's not really here. In practice the "fast-over-the-network" protocol end
by nybble41 5y ago
> Not that we couldn't come up with a fast-over-the-network protocol. It's just that it's not really here.
In practice the "fast-over-the-network" protocol ends up being HTTPS + HTML + CSS + JavaScript, with a web browser as the client.
- em-bee 5y agoi don't know why parent was being downvoted. this is exactly why i am building web applications instead of desktop apps if i expect to run the application on a remote machine. a very good example is the deluge torrent client. by concept it is a desktop gui application. but it is designed in a client-server mode that allows the actual gui to run anywhere and access a backend through a thin protocol that provides a much better experience than remote X would. it has both a traditional gui interface and a well designed webinterface. there is no reason we could not be designing more applications like this.