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# How to try it Click the "Try right now" to start a browser in an iframe at the bottom of the page. Unfortunately for those of us (myself included) living ou
by graderjs 5y ago
# How to try it
Click the "Try right now" to start a browser in an iframe at the bottom of the page.
Unfortunately for those of us (myself included) living outside of North America, the server is in Newark, NJ. So lag will be network-based.
# Source code
This work is based on this project on GitHub:
https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder
Your demo version has many advanced features (listed in the comparison table[0]), including Flash.
# Using Flash
Just go to a page that (still) uses Flash, or click one of the SWF links on the homepage, or a SWF link anywhere.
The a flash integration is thanks to the wonderful Ruffle Flash emulator project, written in Rust[1].
# Project background
This was originally created as a delivery layer for a web-scraping app that was supposed to work on any device without download, but I broke it out into its own product as it just has too many interesting use cases, some ideas for which are here[2]
# Current tasks
I have some customers for the managed individual version (the 15, and 57 a month in the link above), as well as for the self-hosted licensed versions. Right now my focus should be on polish and improving styles and marketing, but I guess I just love building features and fixing bugs. But marketing is essential...
# What is this really?
You can say it's a "remote isolated browser" but really that's just one application that can be built with this browser-based application virtualization technology. I'm thinking about fully open-sourcing the regular version on GitHub above, but I'm worried about the risk where someone will just take it and make a well-marketed cloud service out of it and not have to pay me. I've got it on a Polyform non-commercial license now...I like it but I wish I knew a better option...Maybe tho as I get more successful with it, I won't worry about this so much.
# Easter egg (coming in like 10 minutes)
Finally, if you want to try to co-browsing feature, there's an easter egg. After you opened a browser, just double-tap or right-click or long-hold anywhere on the top of this landing page and it should try to share the cobrowsing session invite link, or copy it to the clipboard. You can send that to someone and when they open it you will both be driving the same browser session.
[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pro-vs-regular--comparison-table https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pr...
[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle
[2]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#applications https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#appli...