Posted on Monday, July 09 2012 @ 21:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The makers of µTorrent revealed BitTorrent Torque, a new set of alpha tools that can be run from HTML5-compliant browsers, turning them into fully-fledged file-sharing hubs. Full details
at TechSpot.
Lead developer Patrick Williams explains in the blog announcement that Torque works by providing a JavaScript hook to a custom BitTorrent backend. "Torque is a JavaScript interface to a custom torrent client that exposes all the power of BitTorrent to web developers. Simply put, it allows anyone to utilize our powerful technology to create completely fresh and new experiences for users with just a couple lines of code."
There are currently two extensions available, the first (pictured below) is Paddle Over, which integrates drag and drop file transfers via social networking and sharing as well as other computers. The second extension is OneClick, which is currently available for Google Chrome and is used to convert a typical torrent download into a simple to manage standard in-browser download.
