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

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink


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

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