With the FileSystem API, a web app can create, read, navigate, and write to a sandboxed section of the user's local file system.
Demo
Documentation
Specification
Status in Chromium
Enabled by default in:
- Chrome for desktop release 13
Consensus & Standardization
After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.
- No signal
- Negative
- Negative
- Positive
Owner
Last updated on 2020-11-09
Comments
Mozilla submitted a different API proposal to WebApps WG (http://w3c.github.io/filesystem-api/). Discussions ongoing http://www.w3.org/2013/11/11-webapps-minutes.html#item04