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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by zozbot234 on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:44PM (#27348903)
> allow you to e.g. load and save documents off your disk.

Isn't this trivial? A download button = "save" stuff from the app to disk. An upload button = "load" from disk to the app. AFAICT, webapps can already do this via existing file API's.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday May 31, 2021 @06:48PM (#27348933)
This isn’t the same: download/upload can be used to simulate a file system, but they don’t preserve file identities in exactly the way open/read/write does.
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