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

[Ben Scott]

On Jan 30, 2008 9:24 PM,  <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:
> Why not implement the entire app in JavaScript?

  Uh... RTFT.  ;-)  Alex wants to have data persistence over browser
sessions, and not have to worry about hosting the data.  And the
JavaScript sandbox, by design, prevents you from writing to the user's
filesystem.

-- Ben