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VNC client using HTML5 (Web Sockets, Canvas) with encryption

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Any live demo or screencast available?

Not a screencast, but a friend in IRC just took a couple (not so exciting) screenshots of himself running it.

http://i.imgur.com/ek8eS.png http://i.imgur.com/f8JMg.png

I've added some screenshots of my own in the past week: http://kanaka.github.com/noVNC/screenshots.html

I'm also working on the ability to play back recorded VNC sessions directly in noVNC. No ETA on that though. Watch noVNC github commits if you're interested in that.

Awesome! It'd be great to see this ported to RDP (I'm getting a book on canvas, maybe I can try it...).

and with TS RemoteApp support!

Canvas is not hard to learn: See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/drawing_graphics_with_canva... as a good starting point.

RDP (along with Red Hat's Spice and NX) is on my long term TODO list.

On the other hand, if somebody sent me good patches (or a pull request) that added RDP support to noVNC, reviewing and integrating them would be on my short term TODO list. ;-)

Yeh cool, but I have a sensation we are running in cercles. Wouldn't it be easier to addopt nativeclient and use a mature, years tested code with http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ ?

Yeh I know, on the web you can "look" at the code, that's cool, but not always, how many time you did look at the gmail code for example, yeh it's preatty unreadable.because it's a compresed translated java code.

Nativeclient is very cool, and it allows you to run native code in your browser, but that does not mean native applications. You still have to port applications and any libraries to the nativeclient API/SDK (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient-sdk/).

Nativeclient only currently exists in Chrome (and only if you run it using a special flag). Nativeclient itself is not yet mature. Javascript is everywhere, HTML5 will be everywhere soon. Nativeclient has a long road before it's widely supported in most browsers and on many architectures.

I remember thinking how great AJAX SSH clients like those used by Slicehost were.

This sort of thing will be great, particularly with my OS X and Windows servers!

the author is a redditor

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c0ifv/guacamole_...

A couple of demo videos of noVNC.

Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icVpGOvh4tc

Longer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9GauBAaQXI

Nifty. Has anyone attempted a full ssh + term emu? Could probably get away with using ChromeOS then.

@bombs mentioned ajax ssh from Slicehost

http://antony.lesuisse.org/software/ajaxterm/

I think that's just tunneling to a server side implementation though.

What I meant was that it'd be neat to have JS that actually implemented the client ssh and xterm/whatever emulation so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere.

> so you wouldn't need to go through the intermediate forwarding server to get somewhere.

That would break the domain based security model the Web uses

Flash can do sockets, but it requires crossdomain.xml

I rewrote rxvt in javascript. http://github.com/paddymul/rxvt-js ther terminal emulator is capable of displaying streaming connections, but I haven't built the server backend to enable it.

very cool. i will play with this today! good stuff.

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