Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
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Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
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Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#3My theory is that many Electron apps don't really need Electron - they just need secure, constrained local file system access.
Electron has massive potential security issues. Chrome with native file system access could make it possible for many of those Electron apps to simply be browser apps, making them vastly more secure and bringing them back into the domain of the ordinary web app.
It's a hugely important new feature.
Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#4My theory is that many Electron apps don't really need Electron - they just need secure, constrained local file system access. Electron has massive potential security issues. Chrome with native file system access could make it possible for many of those Electron apps to simply be browser apps, making them vastly more secure and bringing them back into the domain of the ordinary web app. It's a hugely important new fe…
A lot of them just need to be on the taskbar/notification area and not in a browser tab, honestly.
Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#5Is the filesystem API based on any web standards process? I'm curious if this is a Google-only feature.
Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#6The Native File System API sounds like an exploit waiting to be discovered.
Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#7Is the filesystem API based on any web standards process? I'm curious if this is a Google-only feature.
Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#8The Native File System API sounds like an exploit waiting to be discovered.
I downvoted you because it is a superficial knee-jerk judgement.
Re: Chrome 78 Beta: a new Houdini API, native file system access and more
#9I find it interesting how the solution to the OTP SMS problem is to provide the SMS Receiver API. I think the iOS keyboard OTP suggestion is the right way to do that. An SMS Receiver API, even if secure, just seems like a backwards way to solve this problem.