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Expose the file system on the user’s device, so Web apps can interoperate with the user’s native applications.
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User-visible origin private filesystems? #425

Open EternityForest opened 1 year ago

EternityForest commented 1 year ago

The fact that Origin Private systems as used on Firefox et al may be buried in a profile folder or in a database makes them useless for many purposes, while the full version that gives access.to.any.user chosen directory is unlikely to be accepted by the privacy browsers.

What about a limited version that gives full access to a directory, which the browser would make easy to file, like ~/WebData/default/DOMAIN/files

That way, you could build apps that give users more control of their data, and even allowed for using offline sync solutions like SyncThing, without the concerns of users selecting locations they might regret.

tomayac commented 1 year ago

Probably more a suggestion for https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154 (which was locked for unproductive contributions the last time I looked).

EternityForest commented 1 year ago

Yeah, it was locked!

I still think it belongs in the spec itself, with a flag to specifically request it, since just changing behavior on Mozilla's side might break something else, and relying on any implementation specific features is rarely best practice.

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Probably more a suggestion for mozilla/standards-positions#154 https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/154 (which was locked for unproductive contributions the last time I looked).

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