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    <p>All,</p> <p>I've had an idea kicking around for a while now: Is there a standard graphics library/protocol like X Windows for HTML+JS? I'm primarily a desktop developer with experience in technologies like C#/WPF, but I'd like my piece of the web revolution. :)</p> <p>To me most web technologies for displaying interactive apps seem to be too proprietary, slow, or graphically poor compared to what I expect from a desktop app on even a slow computer. It seems like if there were a way to use an abstracted graphical and user input layer and solid quasi-two-way communication, it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make true desktop apps displayed in nearly all browsers.</p> <p>Now what I'm saying isn't just idle chat: I've gotten a little something cooked up with WPF to start extracting graphics primitives at the milcore layer and am pushing those out across the web using simulated sockets via orbited and Raphael for front-side rendering primarily as a fun hack. So far it wasn't that hard, so I figure somebody else must have done it. WPF isn't everybody's cup of tea, but on the flip side many folks would probably love to have a solid OOP language to code most of the backend stuff with a standardized graphics protocol to the front end that's not just HTML/CSS.</p> <p>Now to me this seems like a very basic thing - a truly graphical client in the browser, on almost all browsers, sans plugins. We have browsers that can do all these high-level things and play audio and videos. I just want to draw triangles that can change. I assume I've just missed the boat and am reinventing the wheel. Can somebody please point me to a project that does this already so I can make some awesome web apps?</p>
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    1. CO+1 for asking a question that shook up my mental model of the web a little (though I'm not full sure I understand it). Are you thinking of the web browser as a _thin_ client of sorts? Or kind of like a web-based remote access tool (ala LogMeIn, GoToMyPC, etc) that accesses a _back-end_ model of the UI? I have similar reservations as @jordancpaul about performance - you'd need constant chatter with the server if the client has to wait for the backend to tell it what to render.
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    2. COBack-end model of the UI is probably the closest. The beauty is that the backend doesn't necessarily have to be "back-end" either. With an appropriate protocol in place, the back-end could be in JS on the same box, just appropriately abstracted away. In this way, the code and the presentation become a bit more standardized and separated. As for performance, yes that's going to be a problem. Using an appropriate transport though, I bet it could get down to about 100ms lag or less.
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