11615 2010-12-29 13:11:32 +0000 save text from an editor in a file system 2011-01-23 20:48:31 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WebAppsWG Web Storage (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ian jackalmage mike public-webapps public-webapps-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 43635 0 contributor 2010-12-29 13:11:32 +0000 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 43640 1 jackalmage 2010-12-29 17:51:02 +0000 This use-case is handled by the File System API, which is a javascript API separate from HTML5. 44634 2 ian 2011-01-23 20:48:31 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: no spec change Rationale: This can already be done in a variety of ways, either by just generating a data: URL with the data and having the user interact with it via a link as you would normally, or by redirecting the user to that data: URL, or by letting the user drag a File object out of the page, having created that object using the File Writer API, or by letting the user interact with a link based on a File object created that way, etc...