File System API (Chromium)

With the FileSystem API, a web app can create, read, navigate, and write to a sandboxed section of the user's local file system.

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

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

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default in:

• Chrome for desktop release 13
• Opera release 15
• Opera for Android release 15

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Mixed public signals
• Edge: Public skepticism
• Safari: Opposed
• Web Developers: Positive

Owner

• ericu@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-22