Can a browser based application write to files on a local hard disk?

[Alex Hewitt]

The program is just a program that keeps track of diet data. So the
person would be recording their weight and the date it was taken. As
such it really doesn't need anything as complicated as a database. A
simple text file would do. The thing is I'm not the least bit interested
in who the person is or what weight data they enter. But of course if
the person wants to track this data they would probably be upset if it
got lost. The reason I thought about using a browser based application
is precisely to avoid having the user need to download an application
that might depend on anything beyond the browser itself.

-Alex

P.S. I'd probably have a how it works section that would describe the
format of the data, where it is stored etc..


On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:25 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> 
> > Need a web application which collects user data that needs to
> > be stored on the user's local hard disk.
> 
> Define 'data'.
> 
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