- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:33:02 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brett Zamir <brettz9@yahoo.com>
- Cc: whatwg <whatwg@whatwg.org>
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Brett Zamir wrote:
>
> The desktop PC thankfully evolved into allowing third-party software
> which could create and edit files shareable by other third-party
> software which would have the same rights to do the same. The importance
> of this can hardly be overestimated.
>
> Yet today, on the web, there appears to be no standard way to create
> content in such an agnostic manner whereby users have full, built-in,
> locally-controlled portability of their data.
Why can't you just do the same as used to be done? Download the resource
locally ("save", using <a href download>), then upload it to the new site
("open", using <input type=file>)?
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