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

[Tom Buskey]

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)
>

The Firefox extension: NoScript works well to limit exposure to javascript.

Just add a pattern: file://mydir/tiddlywiki.html and that's the only  local
file that allows javascript.
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