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Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/ Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete.html#top Comment: save text from an editor in a file system Posted from: 41.238.110.138
This use-case is handled by the File System API, which is a javascript API separate from HTML5.
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