TODO: Client/Server extension

[vfilimonov]

Account for the case when powerpoint and ipython notebook are not running on the same machine (e.g. when notebook is hosted on the server/cloud).

Possible variant:

• Running a server on Windows machine where powerpoint is used. Simple HTTP server is a good option to not mess up with sockets.
• Client side (bypassing import win32com) to be run on the remote machine and will send command+png to the server instead of direct use of COM.

[vfilimonov]

Client options:

Option A: direct connection to server and GET/POST via requests.

Option B: injection of javascript to IPython notebooks to be executed in browser.

[vfilimonov]

The chosen design of the client-server architecture has its reasons: If the local machine is not exposed to the remote, the only other option of communicating could be to start server on the remote side. However in this case either (i) a permanent connection between local client and server is needed or (ii) regular requests from local client to the server on existence of new actions to do with the powerpoint. Neither of the options looked good to me.