Weekly Update 6/1/10: The Peer-to-Peer Web Cometh!

[David Nolen]

http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-and-the-road-to-indexeddb/

A great read and an exciting direction for the web. I was dreading
having to distribute our complicated server setup to clients in order
to make ShiftSpace P2P. We have an evolving plan now,

ShiftSpace P2P = window.applicationCache + IndexedDB + HTML5 workers
+ HTML postMessage

All other technologies need not apply :)

:D

:D

:D

Sorry, but I'm a bit excited.

As far as development news, I've been working on updating our Spaces.
No more DOM building. I'm adding a PHP/Ruby/Python style templating
language for Spaces that's ripped off (copy/paste) of John Resig's and
Jeremy Ashkenas's work. Harlo and Mushon's work on their spaces has
reveal several bugs around Spaces that I've patched.

Finally, apologies for being lax on the updates.

[Mushon Zer-Aviv]

David,
I'm excited you're excited. That's exciting!

With that being said I think this calls for a slightly more detailed design schema in the form of a blogpost since, to tell you the truth, the post on Mozilla's site went way way over my head.
Having a post that responds to that (using the right links and trackbacks) will be a good way to both communicate our P2P thoughts and explain how these new developments are making possible what was previously impossible. If we can refer people to this post as design for a specific social web platform, I think we might be getting some interesting comments (and more interest) from the geek community.

cheers,

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[David Nolen]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mushon Zer-Aviv <mus...@shual.com> wrote:

David,
I'm excited you're excited. That's exciting!

With that being said I think this calls for a slightly more detailed design schema in the form of a blogpost since, to tell you the truth, the post on Mozilla's site went way way over my head.
Having a post that responds to that (using the right links and trackbacks) will be a good way to both communicate our P2P thoughts and explain how these new developments are making possible what was previously impossible. If we can refer people to this post as design for a specific social web platform, I think we might be getting some interesting comments (and more interest) from the geek community.

The design needs quite a bit more thought out before I put a blogpost together. Even better would be a prototype. I was planning on putting a git repo together that demonstrates what I have in mind.

David

[Mushon Zer-Aviv]

On 6/2/10 1:17 PM, David Nolen wrote:
> I was planning on putting a git repo together that demonstrates what I
> have in mind.

Awesome! Is there a FF4 alpha for you to play with for that? When is the
official release due?

[David Nolen]

We can build a prototype now with BrowserCouch, http://hg.toolness.com/browser-couch/raw-file/blog-post/index.html

David