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Question

For storing data offline WebApp can use:

• session storage, "advanced version of cookies"
• key/value based Web Storage (AKA local/global/offline/DOM storage)
• sql-based Web SQL Database (deprecated) and Indexed Database API
• FileReader and FileWriter API (requires user to select files each time the application loads)

But apparently there is no File Storage. Of course, there is a manifest-based caching, but it's just a cache and is not supposed to be used as a user data storage.

Does it mean that the user of WebApp is forced to use some sort of a cloud file storage?

Is there any way to save large files on user's local machine? Or maybe some way to select a local folder web application can use to store user data?

Edit. Security. HTML5 already has the ability to write big portions of data to user's local machine. I don't see any security issues if a browser will provide another, file-based abstraction to store data. It can be some virtual machine, virtual filesystem, whatever.

Hm, I think, it is possible to write JS filesystem and store it as a blob in SQL...

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Update: Hm... recently I've found this and this. Maybe it is what I'm looking for... Yes, it is! See the answer below.

Answer 1

The HTML5 FileSystem API started landing in Chrome 8 and is fairly complete as of now (Chrome 11).

There's a nice tutorial on it here: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/file/filesystem/