Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
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Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
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Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#2My first thoughts go to security concerns, but I didn't see any mention of them in the article. Does anyone have any links that deal with this?
This is really cool stuff, so my first instinct is to consider the possible caveats.
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#3My first thoughts go to security concerns, but I didn't see any mention of them in the article. Does anyone have any links that deal with this? This is really cool stuff, so my first instinct is to consider the possible caveats.
Well, you always have to manually select the file(s). At that point, the website could always upload it, so this is no worse than the status quo.
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#4Any way to request access to a folder to read all the local files in it?
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#5My first thoughts go to security concerns, but I didn't see any mention of them in the article. Does anyone have any links that deal with this? This is really cool stuff, so my first instinct is to consider the possible caveats.
I had exactly the same thoughts really.
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#6Any way to request access to a folder to read all the local files in it?
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
i think you can't request, but once user selects directory, you can read files under it. you'll enjoy this.
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#7My first thoughts go to security concerns, but I didn't see any mention of them in the article. Does anyone have any links that deal with this? This is really cool stuff, so my first instinct is to consider the possible caveats.
There isn't any, really- I was surprised.
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#8The new file reading stuff in HTML5 is fantastic- I've written a little JS widget for my site that takes a local video file, reads the first 100KB of it, then sends that off to a remote video processor by cross-domain AJAX to get a thumbnail, which is then loaded onto the user's page.
It really is amazing what you can do. The only thing missing is being able to decode video metadata so that I know whether 100KB is too little or too much to send if I want to extract a single frame.
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#9Does anyone know of a browser plugin or anything that allows you to write files, too?
Re: Reading local files in JavaScript (HTML5)
#10Does anyone know of a browser plugin or anything that allows you to write files, too?
well you can always use file system api.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
but its chrome only