[webkit-dev] File System Access in Safari

Darin Adler darin at apple.com
Tue Apr 24 13:05:39 PDT 2007


On Apr 24, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Jesse Costello-Good wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to read/write to the file system from  
> Safari (from a page loaded from the file: scheme)? This would be  
> equivalent to the IE's FileSystemObject ActiveX object or Firefox's  
> nsILocalFile XP component.

We don't have anything like that.

> If there is nothing existing, would exposing a file system  
> interface in JavaScript be possible by writing a Safari plug-in in  
> Objective-C or Java?

Yes.

     -- Darin




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