Yeah, this is a tweak that would work. However, I guess the included pages
should include the "file://" based link. (file:///C:/temp/textvars.txt) or
"file://*" - giving access to all the files on the disk. (I didn't expect it
to work, considering the security issues, but apparently, it does)
In this case, we would be asking the user to provide access to the local
files by showing him that the "file://" entry on the include portion - there
is no guarantee he would take it seriously :P.

In any case, it would be a potential security risk. Even if it is barely
read-only, one could compromise any critical file and perhaps post the
message online. I think it would be recommended to allow the "chrome://"
protocol (even that is a security risk, but it may be moderate since it is
limited to the firefox extensions - or one could limit it further to some
namespace for the extension), rather than the "file://", which would give
access to the whole file system.

Next, about appending an iframe - its will not be accessible (will be
considered as cross-domain); atleast, thats how it should work. It is the
security requirement when using HTML directly.

Yeah, for now, you can open a seperate tab or a popup window and do the
task. It should work. But lets hope it doesn't work later :). May be we need
some sort of security enhancements to deal with this issue.

-Kiran


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:36 PM, BD <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you do something like: (this will cause a "flash" in the browser if you
> save and reload the file, which would also have to be checked for so it
> doesn't execute in an infinite loop, so you will have to mess with it
> somehow to make it all work better -- maybe create an inline frame to do
> it?)

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