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

Alex Hewitt hewitt_tech at comcast.net
Thu Jan 31 10:58:04 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 09:32 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2008 8:24 AM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> > TiddlyWiki
> 
>   Which requires endlessly clicking "Allow" to save changes (at least
> five times just now -- I gave up after that), or "remembering" the
> decision to turn off the JavaScript sandbox for all local HTML files
> (a security risk, and one I would consider fairly significant for most
> users)

IIRC, Firefox complained the first couple of times but then offered an
"allow for this file" option. It's a pain but so far this is the only
way I've found that works across platforms and doesn't require the
installation of libraries or other tools.

-Alex

> 
> -- Ben
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