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

• http://www.htmlfivewow.com/demos/terminal/terminal.html

Documentation

• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem

Specification

Specification link

Status: Specification currently under development in a Working Group

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Implementation status: Enabled by default

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No signal
• Edge: Negative
• Safari: Negative
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• ericu@chromium.org

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

Last updated on 2020-11-09