On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Dean Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27/12/2010 12:00, Nick Morgan wrote: >> >> Unfortunately, it looks like it’s a feature. See >> http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60889#c7: >> >> >> I've been following this issue for about 6 months and not much seems to >> have changed in that time. I'm not holding out hope for there being a >> fix, but it would definitely be nice if they came up with a workaround >> that doesn't involve the user messing about with commandline flags. >> > > MSIE and Firefox both allow access to the local file system. MSIE through > ActiveX (FileSystemObject) and Firefox through XPCOM (nsILocalFile). They > both pop up security alerts when you try to do this and the user has to give > permission to proceed. It would be nice if Chrome adopted this approach. > > -dean >
So just let your voice be heard at their ticket system in the hope they will listen :) See also this tweet: http://twitter.com/diegoperini/status/18000977856561152 Please, everybody interested, stress them by voting or commenting/adding to their ticket system showing test cases were this hurts you, your code or your ideas. -- Diego > -- > To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
