Web Servers that Live in Your Browser

This is a pretty amazing find if it’s true. OperaUnite is a browser based server that will allow hosting files, web sites, and most importantly to me, fully distributed social networks. Imagine a one click install personal social server install? I’ll be reading more on this concept in the coming days, as I’ve been wrestling with this from a RubyJS/GWT perspective but pretty clueless on how to connect a database and functional backend framework. A more focused browser may be the missing component of my quest.

  • Brian

    dude, get out more. this a year old.

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    It's news to me. Been looking around for stuff like this for a few
    weeks. It hasn't caught on so there must be issues

  • manielse

    Yeah as Brian said, Opera released this a while back. Opera has had some pretty cool ideas but not enough to make people switch. I think it's a good idea in concept but the Unity projects really need to span all browsers to be successful.

  • http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

    How do things like pluggins get adopted in the standard?

    I can hit my local site from any browser right
    http://home.victusfate.operaunite.com/webserver…

    I haven't explored reverse proxy to my localhost but they also support
    it.
    http://unite.opera.com/application/272/2.0/4/

  • manielse

    Sorry, I haven't worked with it enough to know that answer.