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

[Ben Scott]

On Jan 28, 2008 5:49 PM, Alex Hewitt <hewitt_tech at comcast.net> wrote:
> That way people can't go after him because he told them to do something
> and they got hurt because they took him seriously. Maybe we need to do
> something along those lines with software.

  It's not an issue of legal liability, but of customer satisfaction.
People have unrealistic expectations of computers.  If you're doing it
for business purposes, you have to manage those expectations, or risk
loosing customers when the excrement hits the air circulator.  Exactly
what this entails varies; it may mean backing up your servers, or
social engineering, or something else.

  In this case, since it's apparently a free program, and not one
you're worried about a support burden on, you can just let it be the
user's problem.  If it breaks, they get to keep the pieces.  :)

-- Ben