Re: Possibility of running Qt applications directly in a browser

[Michael D. Godfrey]

On 02/17/2013 08:54 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

On 17 February 2013 04:34, Jacob Dawid <address@hidden> wrote:

> GSoC 2014: Octave running in a browser on the web clientside on all
> platforms without the need for an install?

Because it's not already slow enough?

If you mean simply a WUI for Octave with the core running in a server,
this has been attempted a number of times. People have tried to sell
this service too. Monkey Analytics was a startup based around this
concept. For some reason, it failed, and so have all other attempts.
People keep thinking that there is a market for this, but they are
apparently mistaken that this market exists, or they are bungling up
the execution to get into it.

- Jordi G. H.

I prefer NX as a means of running Octave, and everything else, on remote machines.
NX may be part of why these other attempts have failed.  Why solve a solved problem?

Michael