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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by skohan on Monday May 31, 2021 @08:51PM (#27349702)
A neutral file system and standardized file formats are a huge part of what has made computing able to do interesting things in the past 40 years. The fact that one application can output a file, and another can open it and operate on it is basically at the core of the unix philosophy, and the reason we can have things like developer workflows.

If I, as an application author, can only work on data in ways that are intended and officially blessed by another application, we basically have the situation we have on mobile where everything is siloed, and the state of the art is limited by the imagination individual application developers.

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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by jen20 on Monday May 31, 2021 @09:22PM (#27349855)
I’m aware, and fine with the file system in general. What I do not want is web browsers having arbitrary - or even restricted - access to it.
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by nexuist on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:59PM (#27350325)
How then are web apps supposed to become part of a more durable workflow (i.e. opening/saving/moving/backing up files) if we do not permit them the same privileges as native apps? I don't think web apps should have total control over your filesystem, but why not at least allow them to operate within a folder?
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by tsimionescu on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:46PM (#27350545)
They aren't. Web apps can't be trusted with access to barely anything on your system, lest they copy it to sell as advertising. As long as the internet is fueled by advertising, essentially all web apps are adware.
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by dmitriid on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:47AM (#27352699)
Operate within which folder?

BTW both Safari and Firefox are not going to implement the File Access non-standards that Chrome pushes. They expose too much, there are no good ways to limit the exposure etc.

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