Rendering images in a remote web browser

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, by the processing device, graphical output data from an application;
• generating, by the processing device, in view of the graphical output data, an image and a drawing command that are formatted for an application programming interface (API) of a web browser, wherein the image comprises differences between pixel values of corresponding pixels of a first rendering and a second rendering and wherein the drawing command comprises a command to add the differences to corresponding pixels of the current rendering in the display;
• and
• transmitting the image and the drawing command to a web browser instance executing on a remote client device, wherein the web browser instance is natively capable of rendering the drawing command to a display on the remote client device using the API.

A computing apparatus comprising:

• a memory to store instructions;
• and
• a processing device, coupled to the memory, to execute the instructions, wherein the processing device is to:
• receive graphical output data from an application;
• generate, in view of the graphical output data, an image and a drawing command that are formatted for an application programming interface (API) of a web browser, wherein the image comprises differences between pixel values of corresponding pixel values of a first rendering and a second rendering and wherein the drawing command comprises a command to add the differences to corresponding pixels of the current rendering in the display;
• and
• transmit the image and the drawing command to a web browser instance running on a remote client device, wherein the web browser instance is natively capable of rendering the drawing command to a display on the remote client device.