As a sort-of followup to my remote X11 Emacs post, here’s some links about VNCs. I often get excited about remote desktops[1] but they’re basically irrelevant to me because I’m on a laptop without an Internet connection often enough.
using vnc to create a thin client | klog
Here’s an HTML5 VNC client—readme, screenshots.
I believe there are Java applets for VNC too as well as this HTML5.
[1] An example of this is my jealousy of the SRCF at Cambridge, with its remote desktop service.