beakerbrowser / beaker

An experimental peer-to-peer Web browser
https://beakerbrowser.com/
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Feature: Offline Webpages + Personal Wayback Machine #85

Open joehand opened 7 years ago

joehand commented 7 years ago

For example, a user tags wikipedia.org for offline viewing. Then all site visited can be saved for offline viewing. (not sure if it'd be single URL -> dat or single domain -> dat).

Saving the site to a Dat will make it so you can use the existing Dat viewer to view site (I think you can use local assets in that viewer too?).

I did a prototype a few months ago with web-to-dat, minus the whole Beaker part. If you can get a list of URLs then you might be able to use url-dat to put them into an archive.

It may be useful to share sites with peers. But it'd seems like you'd need a dns type thing for mapping dat links to web urls (or manual sharing). I can't quite see this being really good until we do multi-writer hyperdrives (so both peers could update the offline site).

somebody1234 commented 7 years ago

How would you make sure both writers are trustworthy though?