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

[Alex Hewitt]

On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:52 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2008 12:12 AM, H. K. Bemis <kbemis at ozonecomputer.com> wrote:
> > Am I missing why a db is out of the question?
> 
>   It sounds like Alex is intending to distribute a self-hosted package
> which runs entirely on the user's computer.  HTTP might not even be
> involved.  So despite the use of a web browser, it will be more like a
> traditional "software package" than modern web apps which are part
> product and part service.
> 
> -- Ben

That's definitely what I had in mind. I don't want a potential user of
the program to install anything beyond downloading the program itself.
One issue of course would be someone deliberately replacing my program
with something nefarious but I could put up a warning about where the
user got the program etc.. Not that most Windows users pay attention to
that stuff but you can only try. ;^)

-Alex

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