Now that we use ResizeObserver we know that we require more modern
browsers. The most notable ones here are Firefox and Safari.
With regards to Firefox, while the desktop version has had support
since 69, the Android app requires 79. At the time of writing the
current ESR of Firefox is 78, but the concept of ESR doesn't seem to
exist for Android.
The Safari 13 requirement means we no longer support for example iPhone
5S or the 4th generation of the iPad. These are devices from 2013~2014.
Very few browsers are left in the wild that supports modules but not
"nomodule", so let's simplify our handling a bit.
Safari 10 supports modules but not 'nomodule', this means that this
particular version of Safari will be broken. Due to this we have to
bump up the required Safari version to 11.
Creating an Ubuntu Snap package to make noVNC easier to deploy.
Checks for the websockify binary in both the PATH (using which) and in the location where the Snap package places the binary. This is necessary for noVNC to be usable in a Snap. It doesn't affect the original functionality of git cloning websockify if it's not found in PATH or the Snap location.
* Change copyright header
This updates the copyright header to say "The noVNC Authors". People
who previously had copyright listings are now under the AUTHORS file.
**This commit removes Base64 (and Flash) support**
This commit converts websock.js to used Typed Arrays for the
receive queue (and tweaks rfb.js to ensure that it continues
to function, since only Firefox implements
`%TypedArray%.prototype.slice`). Base64 support was removed
to simplify code paths, and pave the way for using Typed Arrays
for the send queue as well.
This provides two advantages: first, we allocate a buffer ahead
of time, meaning the browser doesn't have to do any work dynamically
increasing the receive queue size. Secondly, we are now able to pass
around Typed Array Views (e.g. `Uint8Array`), which are lightweight, and
don't involve copying.
The downside is that we initially allocate more memory -- we currently
start out with 4 MiB, and then automatically double when it looks like
the amount unused is getting to small.
The commit also explicitly adds a check to the compacting logic that
avoids calling the copy functions if `_rQlen === _rQi`.
This adds support for Travis CI and SauceLabs
testing. Testing on SauceLabs in done via
the Karma test runner. Note that encrypted
Sauce username and access key values need
to be inserted into .travis.yml as global
environment variables. Additionally, the
local test runner (which is still useful
for debugging tests and code) was updated
to reflect that the 'node_modules' folder
now gets placed in the root directory.
- Make the ProjectsCompanies-using-noVNC the canonical source for
companies/project using noVNC and only give a brief summary here.
- Drop the personal Amazon donate/thanks link. Keep the charities and
ask for a tweet if so.
The MPL 2.0 license is a "file-level" copyleft license vs the
"project-level" nature of the L/GPL. The intention of noVNC has
always been that it should be easy to incorporate into existing
projects and sites whether free/open or proprietary/commercial. The MPL
2.0 is designed for this sort of combination project but still
requires that any distributed modifications to noVNC source files must
also be published under the same license.
In addition, the MPL 2.0 allows the code to be used in L/GPL projects
(the secondary license clause). This means that any projects that are
already incorporating noVNC should not be impacted by this change and
in fact it should clarify the licensing situation (the exact
application of the L/GPL to web applications and interpreted code is
somewhat ambiguous).
The HTML, CSS, image and font files continue to be under more
permissive licenses (see LICENSE.txt). The included websockify python
code remains under a LGPLv3 license although the include/websock.js
file from the websockify component is now under MPL 2.0 as well.
Permission was received from other noVNC authors to make this change to their
code license on the following dates:
- Chris Gordon (UI): Jun 24, 2012
- Antoine Mercadal (DOM,*util.js): Oct 10, 2012
- William Lightning (UltraVNC repeater): Oct 10, 2012
- Mike Tinglof (tight encoding): Oct 15, 2012
