{"id":1428,"date":"2020-07-02T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1428"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:51:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T07:51:54","slug":"browsers-accessing-the-local-disk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1428","title":{"rendered":"Browsers Accessing the Local Disk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After writing <em><a href=\"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=1426\">Why isn\u2019t browser based programming or browser based IDEs more popular? \u2013 Smart Disorganized<\/a><\/em> I want to emphasize and ask again.<br \/>\n<strong>Why aren&#8217;t the browser makers offering us a way for web-apps to read and write from the local disk?<\/strong><br \/>\nI know that it&#8217;s a mega security issue. But it should be possible to wrap it up. So that only web-apps opened in a special mode. Which ask three times and need you to sign in blood etc. etc. (Or better, add the public key of the web-app to your browser) get to write to the local disk.<br \/>\nBut if just one browser maker made that happen, it would be the biggest revolution in application software development since the invention of the mobile app.<br \/>\nSuddenly all web-delivered applications would compete on a level playing field with locally installed apps. Browsers would be more important than ever. Surely there is a huge incentive for browser makers to do this.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After writing Why isn\u2019t browser based programming or browser based IDEs more popular? \u2013 Smart Disorganized I want to emphasize and ask again. Why aren&#8217;t the browser makers offering us a way for web-apps to read and write from the local disk? I know that it&#8217;s a mega security issue. But it should be possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[109,211],"class_list":["post-1428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-tools","tag-developing-in-wiki","tag-ide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}