First use case - Save down a dynamically generated report: I have an application that I maintain at http://prettydiff.com that serves as a JavaScript based diff application. What if somebody would like to save the diff report to a file? Right now there is no published API from the browser that allows me to call a "Save As" operation from JavaScript. Instead I am limited to converting the HTML diff report into a text representation that can be copied into some other text application where the user can manually save the diff report down to a file.
Second use case - Dynamically store data in a nonvolatile manner: I have an incomplete application that I started at http://prettydiff.com/jsgui/. This incomplete application is a GUI platform that maintains state in localStorage. I need maximum availability from the volatile storage provided for the actual application. Non-volatile storage is needed to save down application modules that are not currently being used. Thanks, Austin Cheney, CISSP From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Srirangan Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [JSMentors] Use Case for FileSystem APIs http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/ https://github.com/ebidel/filer.js I'm came across this earlier today. Unable to understand what the use-case for this would be. Unless we're talking about an in-browser dropbox clone? Does that even make sense? -- Srirangan | About<http://srirangan.net/about> GitHub<https://github.com/Srirangan> LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/srirangan> Twitter<http://twitter.com/srirangan> | Review19<http://review19:3000> "Next generation, real-time project collaboration" -- 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]
