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Expose the file system on the user’s device, so Web apps can interoperate with the user’s native applications.

4 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 4 comments · first 2021-04-15 · latest 2023-01-13

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  1. …https://github.com/WICG/file-handling/blob/master/explainer.... - Origin Private File System, https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/blob/main/AccessH... There was also Storage Foundation API to which the reaction was "I don't think…
    comment by dmitriid · 2023-01-13 · in SQLite Wasm in the browser backed by the Origin Private File System
  2. Huh. Disregard what I wrote entirely, then. Reading through https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/blob/main/AccessH... , I can see how they’ve bypassed most or all of the problems I saw—I was making unnecessary assumptions. Thank you…
    comment by chrismorgan · 2022-08-17 · in Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser
  3. …API to ensure it will have support. IndexedDB is the only way of doing this on browsers currently. https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/issues/323
    comment by samwillis · 2021-12-01 · in SQLite in a PWA (Anita) with FileSystemAccessAPI
  4. …been gamechanging. At the moment, the high-level file api has no support for watching for changes ( https://github.com/WICG/file-system-access/issues/72 ). Maybe post 1.0 we might see progress. I don't believe the low-level api has…
    comment by rektide · 2021-04-15 · in Don’t we all just want to use SQL on the front end?