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Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by teleclimber »

headShrinker wrote: post #30

"We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported. Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Opera. Firefox support is coming soon!" What could possibly be the reason they wouldn't support webkit based browsers? Safari 7.0.2 OS 10.9.2

Because it uses webrtc.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=rtcpeerconnection

Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by headShrinker »

skrowl wrote: post #6

It sounded interesting until: Allow www.sharedrop.io to run "Adobe Flash"? Then: We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported. Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Opera. Firefox support is coming soon! So basically, this is a webkit app, not a HTML5 app?

Chrome doesn't use Webkit anymore. Safari does and it's not supported by this website.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by rainmaking »

szimek wrote: post #22
rainmaking wrote: post #16

Holy fucking shit this is the best thing since sliced bread. You don't know how much I hate emailing file attachments.

Hopefully, we'll add sending files between networks pretty soon as well. However, it's already possible with similar WebRTC based services like https://www.sharefest.me/ or https://rtccopy.com/ .

Thanks!

Ironically, most of my file emailing does in fact take place within the same network.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by rpowers »

szimek wrote: post #25
rpowers wrote: post #19

Looks like a clone of my friends page: http://www.sumodrop.com *edit: I guess 'clone' is too strong. I meant to imply it has similar functionality, not that it is carbon copied. Yes, I goofed.

Pretty cool. It does upload the files to S3 though, right? ShareDrop in theory should be much faster (especially on local network) and more secure, as it sends files directly between devices without any server in the middle.

True. I think the difference would be more obvious with popular files. Say you're at a lecture with 400+ students around you and you want to share some content. Hitting an S3 bucket might make more sense than handling 400+ connections locally.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by marquis »

I opened this with the Hamachi VPN open, and suddenly could share files with my computer on the other side of the world. I have a Mac so usually do this via the built-in sharing but if it were Windows it's certainly easier than messing with Samba.

Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by alexjh »

szimek wrote: post #12
skrowl wrote: post #6

It sounded interesting until: Allow www.sharedrop.io to run "Adobe Flash"? Then: We're really sorry, but your browser is not supported. Please use the latest Chrome for Desktop or Android or Opera. Firefox support is coming soon! So basically, this is a webkit app, not a HTML5 app?

No idea why it asked for Flash. At this moment the app works only in Chrome and Opera, because Firefox doesn't support HTML5 FileSystem API. There's a polyfill for that, but we had some issues with it, so we've decided to release it anyway. We'll continue working on Firefox support. The whole source code is available on GitHub ( https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop ), so anyone can help.

I'm running Chrome version 26.0.1410.63 on Linux, and I'm getting the not supported error message. Is there a minimum Chrome version?

Re: Show HN: HTML5 clone of OS X AirDrop – Easy P2P file transfers in a browser

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Post by szimek »

alexjh wrote: post #39
szimek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No idea why it asked for Flash. At this moment the app works only in Chrome and Opera, because Firefox doesn't support HTML5 FileSystem API. There's a polyfill for that, but we had some issues with it, so we've decided to release it anyway. We'll continue working on Firefox support. The whole source code is available on GitHub ( https://github.com/cowbell/sharedrop ), so anyone can help.

I'm running Chrome version 26.0.1410.63 on Linux, and I'm getting the not supported error message. Is there a minimum Chrome version?

I think it worked since 32. The current stable Chrome version is 33.
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