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Safari already supports a permission-less file system API with a very similar security model to iOS's filesystem access. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do
by madeofpalk 3y ago
Safari already supports a permission-less file system API with a very similar security model to iOS's filesystem access.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API/Origin_private_file_system https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...
https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-with-origin-private-file-system/ https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-wit...
It's able to support this because the 'file system' is scoped specifically to that origin, and doesn't allow access to any aribtary location on the file sytem, just like iOS.
- hu3 3y agoYour parent comment point still valid. If Apple made arbitrary file access work for apps [1], surely they could make it work for Safari. But apps pay 30% and websites don't, so it's easy to conclude why they don't want to. [1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_controllers/providing_access_to_directories https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_control...