Jul 06
Bob has posted about bittorrent integration in: Opera Integrates BitTorrent.
I do concur that it makes sense to have this kind of thing hidden from the user.
I am a little scared that torrent will be the only way to get to something. I often run into situations where the torrents are all screwed up and I shout “I JUST WANT TO DOWNLOAD THIS DAMN THING”.
So hopefully you could do something like:
<a href=”torrent://www.almaer.com/torrents/coolradioshow1.torrent,http://www.almaer.com/media/coolradioshow1.mp3″>
or a level of abstraction:
<a href=”abstraction://www.almaer.com/virtual/coolradioshow1.abstract”>
We need this to be a standard, and not just in Opera ;)
July 6th, 2005 at 10:47 pm
I don’t think you’d need a different prefix. Just like the browser has an option to automatically open certain downloads, it can have an option to start downloading torrents automatically.
As to problems with torrents, this will attract more users, and the more people downloading a torrent, the better it works!
July 7th, 2005 at 5:04 am
we had the olvely solution, the ed2k:// links, and with let it slid away.
July 7th, 2005 at 5:05 am
How ’bout two links? :)