Canvas Browser Compatibility: http://philip.html5.org/tests/canvas/suite/tests/results.html WebSockets API standard: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ Browser Keyboard Events detailed: http://unixpapa.com/js/key.html ActionScript (Flash) WebSocket implementation: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js ActionScript (Flash) crypto/TLS library: http://code.google.com/p/as3crypto http://github.com/lyokato/as3crypto_patched TLS Protocol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security Generate self-signed certificate: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ssl.html#certificates Related projects: guacamole: http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/ - HTML5 client, but Java servlet does pre-processing jsvnc: http://code.google.com/p/jsvnc/ - No releases webvnc: http://code.google.com/p/webvnc/ - Jetty web server gateway, no updates since April 2008. RealVNC Java applet: http://www.realvnc.com/support/javavncviewer.html - Java applet Flashlight-VNC: http://www.wizhelp.com/flashlight-vnc/ - Adobe Flash implementation FVNC: http://osflash.org/fvnc - Adbove Flash implementation CanVNC: http://canvnc.sourceforge.net/ - HTML client with REST to VNC python proxy. Mostly vapor.