Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008)
by davidjnelson on Monday April 16, 2018 @07:35PM
(#16853981)
There is BrowserFS https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS
Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008)
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:16PM
(#16855174)
There's no reason a text editor, or most applications really, need unrestricted access to a user's disk. They have to prompt the user with a file open dialog anyway, so you may as well let the OS handle that and pass an fd/handle across the boundary for you.
Re:NirSoft Freeware (2008)
by tambourine_man on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:50AM
(#16855557)
What if you are using a smart IDE like editor that, for instance, minimizes and concatenates your css and js files?
Itβs going to want access to all files in that directory, not only the ones you are editing.
tbh that doesn't sound like a huge problem to solve. Setup some working folders that the PWA has R/W access to and leave it at that.
Browser chrome and address bar are not an issue as I believe a PWA can run in a generic application Windows with it's own icon, etc. Similar to if you have used a Chrome Web App in the past? Unless you go looking for it you wouldn't know it was running within a Chrome process.
Not sure how menus are handled. A standard menu API would seem to make the most sense to me?
But some UI issues, like the lack of a proper menu, browser's chrome and address bar will still be a turn off. Besides, having unrestriced access to the user's drive is not something a web page should be able to do and is a must for something like a text editor.