We need more acronyms, I was hoping for an exciting story about how prisoner of war with access only to firefox was able to hack into a webserver and post the details of imprisonment, thus leading to his eventual rescue.
We are missing the point.<p>Turning a browser into a web server is not a big leap in technology. That is not a hard problem.<p>Why I am excited about Opera Unite and not about this firefox extension is that Opera themselves thinks that this will change the face of internet applications. They are excited about it and they will persue this to the end. That is the whole point.<p>It is not about technology. It is about how you push it and persue it. It is all about your vision.
I assume this was posted in connection with the news about Unite. I remember when Google introduced Gears someone on reddit or HN pointed to this extension. I was curious about it and tried it in my computer at work.<p>First of all, this thing works and it gets the job done. But it feels too hard to actually use it everyday for a non-geeky person. The point of Opera offering is not only the platform itself but also the list of Unite services they already provide (photo-sharing and fridge cover most of my needs).<p>I'm pretty sure one could use POW to ultimately bring Unite to Firefox.
This is from 2007.<p>So I've got Hello World running at <a href="http://localhost:6670/test.sjs" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:6670/test.sjs</a> , but I'm not sure if this is exposed to the outside web.
I was also hoping it might have something to do with integrating Batman into Firefox. But that would also require the optional BAMM and !!! extensions. See <a href="http://media.photobucket.com/image/batman%20cartoon%20pow%20bam/CSBG/batman_dark_tomorrow_pow.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://media.photobucket.com/image/batman%20cartoon%20pow%20...</a> for an example "in action."
If only there was a way to get POW to run PHP.JS
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630258" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=630258</a>