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

[Alex Hewitt]

On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 13:19 -0500, Alex Hewitt wrote:
> 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..
> 
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Bill Freeman gave me an off-list pointer to something called TiddlyWiki.
You can see it at this url:

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

Very nifty!

-Alex