New tight PNG protocol: http://wiki.qemu.org/VNC_Tight_PNG http://xf.iksaif.net/blog/index.php?post/2010/06/14/QEMU:-Tight-PNG-and-some-profiling RFB protocol and extensions: http://tigervnc.org/cgi-bin/rfbproto Canvas Browser Compatibility: http://philip.html5.org/tests/canvas/suite/tests/results.html WebSockets API standard: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#websocket http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-00.txt 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 Cursor appearance/style (for Cursor pseudo-encoding): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICO_(file_format) http://www.daubnet.com/en/file-format-cur https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Using_URL_values_for_the_cursor_property http://www.fileformat.info/format/bmp/egff.htm Icon/Cursor file format: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms997538 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa921550.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa930622.aspx RDP Protocol specification: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc240445(v=PROT.10).aspx Related projects: guacamole: http://guacamole.sourceforge.net/ - Web 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.