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

[Bill McGonigle]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 09:24, Alex Hewitt wrote:

> I don't want a potential user of
> the program to install anything beyond downloading the program itself.

[big long idea snipped, since I actually Googled for it:]

   http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2006/10/30/1162236580795.html

Of course, this is limiting the app to Firefox.  You could do the  
same thing with a trusted Java applet, and handle the UI through the  
Javascript/Java bridge thingy.  I don't think Java is as widely  
deployed as Sun thinks it is on home-user machines, so 'download  
Firefox'/'download Java' might be a wash.

-Bill

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