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I actually tried this a while ago, and found that the audience also had to use Beaker to access the content. That's a huge barrier if current browsers don't sup

I actually tried this a while ago, and found that the audience also had to use Beaker to access the content. That's a huge barrier if current browsers don't support this.

omnimus 9y ago
True but i think that their plan is to get into web standards and have IPFS and DAT in other browsers. Beaker is just first implementation. I believe Firefox people are already doing some work on those protocols. It will be interesting see Googles position on those protocols. Chrome might be huge weapon against those iniciatives. Google can simply kill the whole initiative if they won't support it.
staticvar 9y ago
Beaker uses Dat protocol as opposed to HTTP under the hood. Dat protocol support is coming to Brave browser, probably Firefox next. The P2P web is about to take off.
- indigodaddy 9y ago
  I like the idea of dat/ipfs/p2p web, however , I'm hesitant to use my personal computer as the "peer" for this sort of thing. Can you just host/peer your ipfs/dat webpages/services/stuff from a Linux VPS/server?
TheAceOfHearts 9y ago
One must start somewhere. You can use DatHTTPD [0] to mirror your site on HTTPS. There's also additional tools available on the project website [1]. They're also writing specs and working on adding support to Brave [2], or so says the third footnote on that article. Brave also has ongoing work to support IPFS [3]. Long-term, I'm hoping browsers will improve support for registering new protocols through extensions. [0] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd [1] https://datproject.org https://datproject.org [2] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-the-webs-black-boxes https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-th... [3] https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556 https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556

I actually tried this a while ago, and found that the audience also had to use Beaker to access the content. That's a huge barrier if current browsers don't support this.

omnimus 9y ago

True but i think that their plan is to get into web standards and have IPFS and DAT in other browsers. Beaker is just first implementation. I believe Firefox people are already doing some work on those protocols. It will be interesting see Googles position on those protocols. Chrome might be huge weapon against those iniciatives. Google can simply kill the whole initiative if they won't support it.

staticvar 9y ago

Beaker uses Dat protocol as opposed to HTTP under the hood. Dat protocol support is coming to Brave browser, probably Firefox next. The P2P web is about to take off.

indigodaddy 9y ago
I like the idea of dat/ipfs/p2p web, however , I'm hesitant to use my personal computer as the "peer" for this sort of thing. Can you just host/peer your ipfs/dat webpages/services/stuff from a Linux VPS/server?

TheAceOfHearts 9y ago

One must start somewhere. You can use DatHTTPD [0] to mirror your site on HTTPS. There's also additional tools available on the project website [1]. They're also writing specs and working on adding support to Brave [2], or so says the third footnote on that article. Brave also has ongoing work to support IPFS [3]. Long-term, I'm hoping browsers will improve support for registering new protocols through extensions. [0] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/announcing-dathttpd [1] https://datproject.org https://datproject.org [2] https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-the-webs-black-boxes https://pfrazee.hashbase.io/blog/universal-publishing-and-th... [3] https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556 https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9556