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Me too and I was surprised to find that Chrome lists this as "ready" or "released" (I don't recall the exact term). I tried the example web based editor and fou

Me too and I was surprised to find that Chrome lists this as "ready" or "released" (I don't recall the exact term). I tried the example web based editor and found that the file system access API worked in Firefox too. I'm working on a note taking project right now that I think would be great as a web app, but I'd like to store the result in a flat text file and the file system access API looks like it will let me do exactly that.

lioeters 5y ago
> ..found that the file system access API worked in Firefox too For now, File System Access API seems to be available only in desktop Chromium browsers: Edge, Chrome, Opera. I believe Firefox has not implemented it yet. https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api --- Mozilla's current position on the specs: > The ability to read and write from the filesystem is potentially very dangerous. We will need to carefully consider any solution in light of the security and privacy implications. We recognize that the spec authors take this issue seriously, but we are concerned that any solution will increase the risk of security incidents more than we are willing to tolerate. > Right now, there isn't enough detail in the specification to make an assessment of these risks, so we will defer our decision until we have more information. https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-system https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#native-file-s...
- atatatat 5y ago
  They said it worked in Firefox...