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Very nice. It reminds me of a similar all-in-browser file transfer tool I built ages ago called nearshare. This was WAY before webrtc was a thing so my approa
by martylamb 2y ago
Very nice. It reminds me of a similar all-in-browser file transfer tool I built ages ago called nearshare. This was WAY before webrtc was a thing so my approach was to actually run a web server in the browser via a java applet. :)
https://martiansoftware.com/nearshare/ https://martiansoftware.com/nearshare/
- catlikesshrimp 2y ago>>The approach was simple, but relied on technologies that are now obsolete. Does obsolete mean deprecated or removed?
- martylamb 2y agoFirst the one, then the other. :) It used LiveConnect[0] to talk to the UI-less java applet[1] hosting the web server. It was a weird (and therefore kind of fun!) combination. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#LiveConnect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#LiveConnect 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet