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Default to global ipfs API #10
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The ipfs companion browser extension allows a user to provide a web API to any site that draws data from the user's own IPFS client preference.
When loading the IPFS gateway, it would be cool if the site first checked if the user's browser had a
window.ipfs
object, as provided by the ipfs companion, and defaulted to loading content from it.This would reduce load on the gateway when visited by companion users, and would also allow links to ipfs gateways to serve as links to ipfs-browser-users' own local caches.
It's no
ipfs://
, but it would be a lot easier to make happen.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: