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by detaro 2950 days ago
ipfs.io is a gateway, fetching the content from the IPFS network and serving it to you over HTTP.
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fwdpropaganda 2950 days ago
So sort of an intermediary between how the internet works these days, and how it should work in IPFS view.

Does the "deliverying JS to browser" thing that I described make sense at all?

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Confiks 2950 days ago
There is already a Javascript implementation [1], but it is not feasible to setup a full IPFS node in every browser tab that loads an IPFS resource. Instead you can use ipfs-companion [2], a browser extension that lets you easily load IPFS resources in your browser. While it can use the Javascript implementation, this is not recommended as it is currently pretty resource heavy [3].

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

[2] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion

[3] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/blob/master/...

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detaro 2950 days ago
There's work on running the IPFS protocol over WebRTC, so yes, it makes sense and is another way of enabling normal browsers to access it.
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