On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 6:53 PM, Jesse Taylor <jessetaylor84@riseup.net> 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,