On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Jesse Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > What would make more sense, and would lead to much more rapid/widespread > adoption, is to use protocols like WebSockets / WebRTC to facilitate P2P > connectivity in the web browser, so that everything can be done via a simple > browser plugin that can be installed by anyone with few clicks, and would > then just allow people to use the browser search bar as usual.... > > To help bootstrap the WebRTC nodes into the P2P network, and to deal with > some of the instability inherent in P2P networks (i.e. by creating stable > "super-peer" indexing nodes), I like cathalgarvey's suggestion of utilizing > something like a Wordpress plugin that would use the same index/search > standard as the WebRTC clients, but could additionally bootstrap the > web-based clients. > ... > I've been looking around for some kind of WebRTC P2P search engine and > haven't found anything yet ... maybe I've found a programming project for > this summer :)
WebRTC sockets in browsers for P2P would be an interesting project; this has been brought up here and there for various purposes, yet I can't find many resources on this either. interop is much better than when i last checked! http://www.webrtc.org/interop and WebRTC is actually working in the browser i'm using: https://apprtc.webrtc.org widespread use given a compelling use case is feasible, and a much lower bar than third party application installs or Java apps require. i would be interested in following your progress if you do start coding on this... best regards,
