Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 18:38:40 UTC, sclytrack at tired.com 
wrote:
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>> There are a lot of possibilities: you could run Qt or Gtk+ on 
>> the server and then write a backend for each of those toolkits 
>> so they can call the simple Crack server APIs and render to 
>> the Crack client.
>
> Gtk Broadway.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr8eo4RlPw4

I saw that a couple years ago, cool demo, though I wonder how 
precise or laggy it'd be over the network.  Do you know if 
they're using canvas or webGL to render?  All I see online is 
that they used websockets for networking.  I did find this cool 
post when looking for more info:

https://brendaneich.com/2013/05/today-i-saw-the-future/

I'm skeptical about all the engineering challenges of that GPU 
cloud stuff though.

I'd rather work on getting a good thin client going first, which 
the web should have been but never got right, before getting into 
all this whiz-bang stuff with so many moving parts.