Carried over from brave/browser-laptop#9556

@diasdavid wrote:

Hi there brave team! I'm David, from the IPFS project.

I'm looking into the IPFS integration into the Brave browser and I'm hoping you could clarify some design details, just so that I'm sure I understand how everything is pieced together.

Right now, the most straightforward way is to mimic what WebTorrent did and create an extension. I've noticed that it gets its own WebPage, located at https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/tree/master/js/webtorrent and that this page gets bundled in with WebPack -- https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/blob/master/webpack.config.js#L153-L169 --. I can create something similar, no problem.

• Where do I capture ipfs://, dweb:// and even http(s)://ipfs.io/ipfs/ urls so that they get resolved through the IPFS Extension?
• How do I create a control panel like the one I see Dashlane/1Password
  
• Currently, we have full web applications that are hosted and served through IPFS. We can start by just adding IPFS support for download of files but ideally, we would like to see pages be rendered. Any advice on how to hint Brave the content type? Drop it into the dom like it's 🔥?

Thanks in advance! Super excited to do this :)