On 11/28/2013 05:40 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
If you're designing a headless system like a NAS, then the terminal
type that you can rely on people having is pretty limited: an HTML
browser or a VT-100 terminal (including telnet). A significant
advantage of this approach is that with care it can be designed to do
something sensible even if the client can't or won't run Javascript or
Java, other alternatives such as a desktop app served by VNC fail
dismally by comparison.
The old version of the QNAP box hat a standard HTML-interface (pure HTML
widgets, thus simple CGI stuff).
With the new version they converted to a "remote GUI" in the browser
(thus the functionality is within the box, while the remote GUI
implementation is completely independent from the functionality).
I do suppose they did this for a reason :-) .
In fact the remote GUI implementation uses a huge java script library
that the browser pulls when starting the work on that page.
-Michael
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