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If web pages could be more easily given access to a directory on your filesystem, Google Docs could more easily show you you files in your Documents folder.
by jay_kyburz 6y ago
If web pages could be more easily given access to a directory on your filesystem, Google Docs could more easily show you you files in your Documents folder.
- zozbot234 6y ago'Access to shared data' for proprietary, untrusted "apps" is an anti-pattern that even iOS and Android are now getting away from. If a JavaScript app needs to access some sort of complex directory structure, that can happen within current API's by locally "uploading" and "downloading" a standard archive format, e.g. a .ZIP file.
- southerntofu 6y agoRunning code from untrusted sources (Javascript/WASM in the browser) is an anti-pattern. It causes all sorts of problems and vulnerabilities.
- diffeomorphism 6y agoIf web pages had a harder time getting their fingers on online data, that would give the same outcome.