One problem with this is being able to execute server side scripting to build the web page. Most sites are not static HTML anymore, but dynamically generated. I doubt many sites would be filling to bundle the source for their sites into a torrent. Also how many users have PHP, python, ruby, ASP, etc installed on their machines any way?
Overall I think doing this in the browser will not work. On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:16 AM, bluetiger <[email protected]> wrote: > > hey all, > > wondering how well a torrent based web would work. shared load via > surfers, site's could be downloaded and viewed/replaced /w local copy > once available, and browsed for other cool stuff (how often do we find > pic005.jpg and knowing there is an index called something. listed in > the torrent could be the REST of the files. pic006, 007, 008, etc) > > just thought if chrome had it built in (torrent downloader/sites being > viewed in real time as site gets seeded /w it's files then people can > start seeding as they are viewing the website). really grid this > interweb up! > > hoping someone can either explain why this idea would suck (ie, too > slow for viewing....i'd argue that it's as fast as the 1 server at a > time we currently get, main .com site could be server 1 and the > torrent grid could find the other people hosting the site as they view > it). > > the idea would cost bandwidth of the viewer but as a viewer i dont > give a sh1t if i use a lil ul for a faster internet. it also seems to > be the BIG hurdle for video streaming. i see radio streaming sites all > over (winamp has shout's music service....100's of music channels). > video not so much. like my daily news doesn't broadcast (yet) all of > it's programming online (as there is no organization like the torrents > seem to have, priority for download, ratio to prevent leeches, file > preview (best to copy/view instead of viewing as sometimes can't save > to an open file). > > let my browser have options like this built in and hopefully make the > web faster by griding all the sites in torrents. im not saying > browsing now ain't fairly fast for dsl/cable, just saying this web > preview/prefetch is the way to go. have it on the pc before it's > needed so the reader is never waiting. 56k could have their own set of > options (don't dl pics 1st, never flash, more control over HOW we get > data is nice) > > > hope some of this could go into future versions. some sites might not > host a torrent of their site. i can see lots that would happily tho. > large news sites could give all the users at once the same news hosted > from the 1 main server/website. maybe just a "host websites torrent > style as you surf" speed boost option. > > if you go offline or yer 56k this could really help. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
