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Is this an actual file system, or a file explorer? Big difference as far as I'm concerned.

• dsp1234 10y ago
  From the first line of the linked page, "BrowserFS is an in-browser filesystem that emulates the Node JS filesystem API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends."
  • _cronjob 10y ago
    Ordinarily, there's a hard cross-orgin security policy separating URLs like: file:///Users/user/plain.txt From: http://example.com/plain.txt I feel like something that blurs this boundary could be dangerous for non-developers and less techincal folks. Things like Flash and Java applets often bridged that gap, causing many problems. I wonder how many people understand the reasons for a clear distinction between browsing files on your machine with an FS explorer, versus an isolated file store jailed or sandboxed to the browser?
    • vertex-four 10y ago
      This... doesn't do that. As evident in the README. It's a VFS API across a bunch of things you could do anyway.