- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 05:39:44 +0000 (UTC)
- To: "Dailey, David P." <david.dailey@sru.edu>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Dailey, David P. wrote: > > Might it be possible to have a place or time (or some coincidence of > both) in which those of us who either don't know if WHATWG contains > something, or don't understand something, could ask dumb questions? The IRC channel #whatwg on Freenode is always open to dumb questions and there is usually someone who can answer you, if that works. The HTML WG IRC channel, #html-wg on irc.w3.org (port 6665 or 80) also has a number of WHATWG people if you prefer doing it in the HTMLWG context. > * Okay I guess I have to reveal the dumb question after all: does WHATWG > allow for writing files client side? Not currently; there hasn't been much demand for that. What would the use case be? Maybe it's something we should add. There are a lot of risks associated with any kind of client-side disk access. > About seven years ago I put together a little web app using VML (IE > only) http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/grapher/ -- the utility of > being able to save files to the client (or open them) should be > relatively self-evident. Why wouldn't you just provide a link to the file and let the user use the browser's Save Page As feature? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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