All,
I got an idea that started a long time ago: is there a standard graphics library / protocol like X Windows for HTML + JS? I am primarily a desktop developer with experience in technologies like C # / WPF, but I would like my bit of the internet revolution. :)
For me, most web technologies for displaying interactive applications seem too proprietary, slow, or graphically poor compared to what I expect from a desktop application, even on a slow computer. It seems that if there was a way to use an abstract graphical and user input level and continuous quasi-two-way communication, it would be terribly difficult to make real desktop applications displayable in almost all browsers.
Now I'm not just saying a loafer: I have something cooked with WPF to start extracting graphic primitives at the milcore level, and I pop them over the Internet, using simulated sockets via orbited and Raphael to render in front, primarily as a fun hack . So far it has not been so difficult, so I believe that someone else should have done it. WPF is not all cups of tea, but on the other hand, many people would probably like to have a solid OOP language for encoding most of the backends with a standardized graphics protocol for an interface that is not just HTML / CSS.
Now it seems to me that this is a very simple thing - really a graphical client in a browser, in almost all browsers, without plugins. We have browsers that can do all these high-level things and play audio and video. I just want to draw triangles that can change. I guess I just missed the boat and reinvent the wheel. Can someone please point me to a project that does this already so that I can make some amazing web applications?
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