It looks neat, and agree with @akavel that it reminds me of the early days of the WWW (remember the Amaya browser from W3C with built in web page editing!).
Is this all about circumventing censorship? Would be cool if it was also backwards compatible with the current centralised web, i.e. once you "publish" your peer-to-peer site that it'll also upload it to some global shared host (like the WP/blogger.com kind of model) for people on non-Beaker (or uncensored) connections to be able to access the sites - would maybe make it more viral too..
It is backwards compatible with the current web. It opens as a chrome fork and you can navigate to any ole http(s):// URL with it. Where it gets magical though is when you add a DNS record to your domain that lists the dat:// protocol address for your site.
Basically, you can add P2P support to your site with graceful degradation back to a centralized server.
Someone has to pay for that shared hosting though, which is why free shared hosts always fail in the long run, a la GeoCities.
I don’t think there’s anything stopping someone from building a service that mirrors DAT content to a shared hosting service, but to me it wouldn’t make sense for it to be built in to the core platform.
Is this all about circumventing censorship? Would be cool if it was also backwards compatible with the current centralised web, i.e. once you "publish" your peer-to-peer site that it'll also upload it to some global shared host (like the WP/blogger.com kind of model) for people on non-Beaker (or uncensored) connections to be able to access the sites - would maybe make it more viral too..