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Bug 22099 - Good updates! But no text file writing to computer. :( I verry need to use JavaScript to write and read files on my PC...
Summary: Good updates! But no text file writing to computer. :( I verry need to use Ja...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-05-20 14:22 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-06-10 21:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-05-20 14:22:47 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top
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Comment:
Good updates! But no text file writing to computer. :(
I verry need to use JavaScript to write and read files on my PC...

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-06-10 21:34:08 UTC 
Reading: use <input type=file> to select a file to open.
Writing: use <a download href="data:..."> to offer a file to save.

If you want reading and writing from the disk to a single file, yeah, that's not available yet. What's the use case?