On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 14:26:12 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
I recall NX does something like this, plus a number of other neat tricks.Of course, you do want just "blit this image" as a generic fallback, and we can do better than X too, by just making it use png+jpg or something. Boom, transparency (yes, X has this in the render extension) and some big compression boosts.
http://www.nomachine.com/documents/NX-XProtocolCompression.php -Wyatt