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File as a service
Write generic FUSE interfaces for public APIs, and get data with extra features to files on operating systems. | |
Or,... what I call "Metadrive". Metadrive would be a piece of software that lets
you
mount websites, as if they were disks on your computer, and interact with
them,
as if they were local.
This would give extra kick for operating system developers to build nicer file
managers, and text editors,
to support reading and interacting with the
internet,
as if the whole internet is on your system. Ah, ok, I had made a video on it.
Here.
Metadrive
https://wiki.mindey...rive-user-story.mp4
[Mindey, Apr 07 2020]
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How does this differ from correctly deployed ftp: under Unix/Linux ? |
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FTP is essentially data as a service. The "File as a service" works in way
that each item has bound session and actions (API calls) bound to it too,
so, if a halfbakery idea is mounted on my disk, I can reply it by clicking on
the file of that idea, and choosing comment action, without ever manually
visiting the site :) You can't do
something like that via FTP. |
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Should I call it "service as files"? |
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You're going to need platform-independent APIs at the server end ... which means a local client on top of/beside your browser and OS. Hmmmm. Or does it ? |
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Implementation via http: would be clunky, but generic. Browser plugins might offer a route. |
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OK, this is worth looking at, but might be more trouble than it's worth. |
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Not necessarily. A file is a representation of software, but combinational logic gate arrays are also "software". |
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I think MS had a go, briefly, at convergence between the file
system UI (Windows Explorer) and the internet UI (Internet
Explorer), and it didn't turn out well. I forget the details. |
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// I think MS had a go, briefly, at convergence between the file system UI
(Windows Explorer) and the internet UI (Internet Explorer), and it didn't
turn out well. |
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Yes, but that was more about the generalization of the file manager, not
the idea of delivering web sites as plug-and-play devices. And on Linux,
device is a file :) |
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That's not quite right; but it's a good enough explanation for most _lusers. |
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Is this some sort of kludge to make windoze look like a real OS, then ? If so, it's wasted effort. You're just trying to attach a gold chain to the gilded dog turd so you can hang it on a hook... |
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//delivering web sites as plug-and-play devices// |
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It all depends on the level of the website's world interactions and how much a user can do personally. Sounds like a laggy, self updating mirror. |
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But, on second thoughts, it would only have to be a few tiers deep of connecting links from user's position. Giving a false impression of the whole site. |
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