Re:Announcing Hyperswarm
by WorldMaker on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:06PM
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The lack of browser support is the biggest stop to getting PWAs to better decentralized/robust-offline.
Stronger PWA support would help a lot, especially in trying to minimize the number of wrappers like Electron and Cordova in the wild.
Certainly most of the interfaces needed aren't high on web platform priorities, and it may not be Beaker's intent yet to push on WHATWG to adopt these technologies more platform-wide, but even the ability to bootstrap the DHT in an ugly, but entirely browser-capable fashion (a dumb REST API bootstrap call to known HTTP endpoints, as one off-the-cuff idea) could do a lot for the kinds of decentralized applications that could be built entirely as PWA with no other application wrapper needed.
libp2p seems to have this goal in mind on their issue tracker, but so far as skimming the issues, I don't think I've seen a timeline for releasing it.
Stronger PWA support would help a lot, especially in trying to minimize the number of wrappers like Electron and Cordova in the wild.
Certainly most of the interfaces needed aren't high on web platform priorities, and it may not be Beaker's intent yet to push on WHATWG to adopt these technologies more platform-wide, but even the ability to bootstrap the DHT in an ugly, but entirely browser-capable fashion (a dumb REST API bootstrap call to known HTTP endpoints, as one off-the-cuff idea) could do a lot for the kinds of decentralized applications that could be built entirely as PWA with no other application wrapper needed.
libp2p seems to have this goal in mind on their issue tracker, but so far as skimming the issues, I don't think I've seen a timeline for releasing it.