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		catlikesshrimp 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser >>The approach was simple, but relied on technologies that are now obsolete. Does obsolete mean deprecated or removed?

martylamb 11 months ago [–]

First the one, then the other. :)

It used LiveConnect[0] to talk to the UI-less java applet[1] hosting the web server. It was a weird (and therefore kind of fun!) combination.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#LiveConnect

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet

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