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rose / distroweb

a peer-to-peer static web server
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Integration into a browser? #1

Open hrj opened 9 years ago

hrj commented 9 years ago

I just happened to pass-by this repo, and wondered:

What if this were to be integrated into a browser? Would it be easier to develop / use?

We are developing a new browser, and one of the things we would like to do is add support for distributed protocols. As of now, our thoughts haven't really gone beyond that. How / what / which protocol? There are couple of others out there and we're willing to try new ideas.

If you have any ideas about this, please let us know.

PS. Awesome blag; RSSed :+1:

rose commented 9 years ago

Thanks hrj, gngr looks like a really interesting project. Distroweb was very much a toy learning project; neither Andree nor I had done any distributed programming or worked with node before, as you can tell by looking at the code :).

We were basically copying what we understood of bittorrent at the time - in fact I wonder if using the bittorrent protocol would be a good solution for you. Certainly it'd be easier than coming up with something from scratch. What other options are you looking at?

hrj commented 9 years ago

What other options are you looking at?

We are keeping an eye on ipfs. There's some interesting discussion about it here.

Bittorrent sounds good too. But IIRC it requires a central tracker.

Frankly, this is not something we are actively investigating. Our immediate focus is to build a "normal" browser first.

I was just branching out to you, in case you had some ideas.