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Does anyone have info on the Opera Unite story? I remember it being well received when it was announced but clearly it never gained traction. I see Opera have n
by AlexDanger 14y ago
Does anyone have info on the Opera Unite story? I remember it being well received when it was announced but clearly it never gained traction. I see Opera have now canned it.
Perhaps a bit ahead of its time? In the next few years my country (.au) will be wired up with fibre to the home which makes this browser p2p thing more attractive. Also WebRTC seems timely.
- pornel 14y agoIt was a nice idea, but it was in an odd place: • too consumer-oriented for geeks to use it as a serious server (it was a JS-based server before node.js!) • too geeky to be used by mainstream consumers. People may want control and privacy, but they don't want to deal with problems of ADSL+NAT and keeping their machine running 24/7.
- andrewl-hn 14y agoI joined Opera just before Unite was released. People told me that the idea was very old. They've been prototyping and re-working the product and were not 100% happy about it whet it was finally released. It seems to me that at that time it would be a great idea to wrap the API into some mix of standards that emerged over time (IndexDB, AppCache, etc.) That way writing Unite applications would attract web developers interested in HTML5. It didn't happen and most web developers saw some proprietary API for a browser with a small marketshare. No wonder it didn't took off. Something similar may appear on top of WebRTC like you suggested.
- yareally 14y agoYou can still use it on Opera 12 if you reenable it. They're killing their own DNS servers for it, but it will work if you set your own DNS with ddns http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/custom-domains-opera-unite/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/custom-domains-opera-unit...