- From: Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:38:53 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-device-apis@w3.org, public-webapps WG <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Nov 20, 2009, at 01:26 , Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> For what it's worth, I think any API that opened a dialog asking the >> user "Do you want to give website X access to directory Y in your file >> system" would not be an API we'd be willing to implement in firefox. >> I.e. our security policy would be to always deny such a request (thus >> making implementing the API useless for our users). > > Ditto for Safari. That's good, because it's not part of the plan to do such a thing. The writer level for the File API, which I'm tasked to draft up, certainly doesn't plan any such thing. There is interest in a Directory level, but it's lower. And I would expect it to only be available to widgets, or /perhaps/ to some sort of virtual local file system accessed through a localFS object à la localStorage (with quotas, security considerations that UAs shouldn't implement that by actually storing files on the FS as that could open up a bunch of issues, etc.). -- Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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