Re: [w3c/manifest] Add a means to associate a PWA with a file extension (#626)

> If I'm not mistaken, the FileSystem API was only providing sandboxed storage (i.e., although it presents a file-like view, it only presented the web app with a virtual file system, not allowing the app to mount a real directory from the host system

Yes, but that actually covers a lot of use cases, like for example @AshleyScirra's and ours.

> and thus was isomorphic to LocalStorage or some other API for persistent isolated storage of large amounts of data).

There are some important differences between that API and e.g. localStorage/IndexedDB. For example it is not possible to get a filesystem URI for stored objects with the latter, meaning you cannot e.g. play audio or video directly from those.

> Either way, this is out of scope for this particular manifest issue, which is about file associations.

True. Just wanted to register interest as well. :)

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