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

#11
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?

Something can be supported by an HTML5 standard, where all browsers have agreed to implement that standard, but only a few have gotten around to it yet. (Not sure if that's the case here.)

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

#12
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.

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

#15
post #8

I had a look at doing this myself recently to do iPhone -> Laptop transfers. Does this work for mobile -> desktop? I didn't think that WebRTC was available on mobile safari and therefore wouldn't work.

It depends on what you mean by "mobile" :) It works between Chrome on Android and desktop. Unfortunately, Safari (neither desktop nor mobile) doesn't support WebRTC.

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

#17
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?

Webkit is the new IE.
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