I would like to embed a Remote Desktop session within my browser. I must use remote desktop because my clients can't install any additional software on the server.

Here are some problems that I can already foresee:

1) I believe that I can embed an RDP ActiveX control, but then all I could support is IE. And even then, IE lockdown may forbid ActiveX controls.

2) I don't know anything about Apple computers, but I presume that they don't inherently run RDP?

3) I think there are ways to run RDP through a Java control. I don't have experience to know if this is a good or bad idea. I suppose that Java may even be disabled on some browsers, but don't know if this is a common case?

So, what options have I got here to make this work reliably? I presume that I may need some default options (ie ActiveX), and then some fallback options (ie Java), and code to identify the correct option each time.