Re: [ppsp] Firefox ppsp URL support

[Dave Cottlehuber <[e-mail]>]

On 08. März 2014 at 17:38:46, Jeff Thompson ([e-mail]) wrote:
> On 2014-03-08 1:15, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:
> > For firefox it won't be a plugin, it will be native code + exposed js
> > api; there's no guarantee that this will be merged into the official
> > ff release though yet.
>  
> Hello Dave,
>  
> A related question. What are the plans for Firefox to support ppsp
> URLs, so that an HTML page can have, for example
>  
> and Firefox (or an extension) will use PPSP to fetch and display an
> image (or other content type)?
>  
> Thank you,
> - Jeff Thompson

Hey Jeff,

I would love to see this too. I had a brief chat with some IETF folk about the right way to organise this; it requires a bit of coordination across Mozilla, IANA, and a few other places. I’d love to have some help on this, atm I am still working on the Erlang peer before I get stuck into the javascript one. If there’s interest in doing this I am happy to give input based on what I’ve learned so far.

One of the other crazy ideas I had was that, as the leaf nodes don’t have to be identical chunk size, one could in theory cram an entire web site into a hash tree simply by putting the files into the appropriate lower level chunks with some structuring info, for example, I’m not sure how mime types etc would be transported, and there are a few other hitches, but in *theory* it’s all achievable :).

I would imagine it will need something like http://www.w3.org/TR/app-uri/ and these are defined by http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ which refers to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2717 and http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2718 ; I have had some offers of assistance in working through all this, with a recommendation that getting a few of the core browser developers onside with the proposal before doing all the paperwork.

Currently my priority is to finish the Erlang PPSP code first :-).

A+
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Dave Cottlehuber
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