S�ren Kuklau wrote: > DeMoN LaG wrote: >> Tony Shepps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 23 Feb 2002: >> >> >>>There oughta be - and maybe there is, I don't know about this sort >>>of thing - a hyperlink to search a p2p network. And then, there >>>oughta be a partial p2p client, perhaps one that would only search >>>and leech files and not share them, that could be invoked by such a >>>link. >>> >>>Whaddya think? >>> >> >> If there is a "Vote" of some type deciding if anyone wants to implement >> this, I vote *NO*. If I want to find something on a P2P network, I open >> my P2P client and look for it. Web browsers browse the web, not >> filesharing networks > > What about ProtoZilla? (See mozdev.org projects) > > And umm... Mozilla is not only a browser, but a whole suite. And you can > do ftp:// as well in the browser, which is _not_ part of the web (WWW). > news:// also works. So why not gnutella://, edonkey:// and so on? >
It wouldn't be wise to put links into a website using such protocols to search for a file because the author of the webpage has very little control over which results are displayed. Having this implemented in the browser however would be quite like the highlight & search option. Which'd make more sense. -yatsu
