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BTW, for anyone who has children who are doing distance learning during COVID, the vast majority of school districts are using the Web, not native apps on deskt

BTW, for anyone who has children who are doing distance learning during COVID, the vast majority of school districts are using the Web, not native apps on desktop or iOS for the kids to do collaborative learning and submit work. From what I've seen, they're basically creating APIs like this that set on top of GDrive, DropBox, and File Upload / Server-directed File-Save. So in essence, all this new API is mostly buying you is offline mode.

snvzz 6y ago
>So in essence, all this new API is mostly buying you is offline mode. There's been, for a long time, local storage APIs. This is filesystem access, which is very different.
- chromedev 6y ago
  Which has policies that can be enabled to block it if necessary
  - snvzz 6y ago
    Users click "accept" to make things work. Filesystem access is going to have nefarious consequences.
    - chromedev 6y ago
      That's not how policies work. Schools, organizations and even home users can enable policies to block this feature altogether as well as many others: https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/ https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/
      - emteycz 6y ago
        I'd like to see that ordinary user that is configuring API usage policies on their home network
- im3w1l 6y ago
  I think adding a virtual file system to the local storage API's might be fine. One which cannot be mounted easily by non-technical users but has a viewer which allows dragging files into and out of it.
  - lioeters 6y ago
    I vaguely recall something like that, a virtual file system using browser local storage. A search yields: > BrowserFS is an in-browser file system that emulates the Node JS file system API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends. https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS It supports storage backends such as: in memory, LocalStorage, IndexDB, HTTP, or the FileSystem API.

snvzz 6y ago

>So in essence, all this new API is mostly buying you is offline mode. There's been, for a long time, local storage APIs. This is filesystem access, which is very different.

chromedev 6y ago
Which has policies that can be enabled to block it if necessary
- snvzz 6y ago
  Users click "accept" to make things work. Filesystem access is going to have nefarious consequences.
  - chromedev 6y ago
    That's not how policies work. Schools, organizations and even home users can enable policies to block this feature altogether as well as many others: https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/ https://cloud.google.com/docs/chrome-enterprise/policies/
    - emteycz 6y ago
      I'd like to see that ordinary user that is configuring API usage policies on their home network
im3w1l 6y ago
I think adding a virtual file system to the local storage API's might be fine. One which cannot be mounted easily by non-technical users but has a viewer which allows dragging files into and out of it.
- lioeters 6y ago
  I vaguely recall something like that, a virtual file system using browser local storage. A search yields: > BrowserFS is an in-browser file system that emulates the Node JS file system API and supports storing and retrieving files from various backends. https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS It supports storage backends such as: in memory, LocalStorage, IndexDB, HTTP, or the FileSystem API.