First of all, I see no reason additional HTML tags would be helpful or necessary for what you are describing.<br><br>Second, Javascript needs to be provided with more abilities for larger local storage beyond cookies. Luckily, there has been work on this by the
<a href="http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#storage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">WHATWG</a> and even early <a href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:Storage" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
implementation by Mozilla</a>.<br><br>Third, you venture into a new area which I have not yet seen a formal proposal or specification for: ability for Javascript to access, save, and generally manipulate files. This is a logical step, the browser is becoming almost as an operating system on top of your operating system. The web applications often have nicer interfaces thanks to the ease of XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. Some web applications are trying to replace desktop applications altogether. Under careful security parameters, the same XHTML, CSS, and Javascript pages ought to be able to perform the same kinds of tasks as any computer application.
<br> <br>There are several ways of doing this. <a href="mailto:webmartians@verizon.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">WeBMartians </a>pointed out that LiveScript originally had abilities permitted only to local files. This is the easy way, it would simply let files on your computer do what files on your computer could always do. For web applications such as Bert is describing, they could also whitelisted. This should probably only happen after the user receives a one-time, scary warning message of the dangers to their computer. That sort of whitelist is probably the best way. Frankly, I don't really know, but I am convinced that Javascript is the
<a href="http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/02/next-big-language.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Next Big Language</a> (well, at least a language which will continue to grow and prosper) and should have specifications in place to work with files, even if the security issues are not yet fully worked out.
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