Gabor Krizsanits (INACTIVE) Reporter
	Description • 9 years ago

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/fileSystem

	Kris Maglione [:kmag]
	Comment 1 • 9 years ago

This is an app API. Adding those to WebExtensions is opening up a huge can of worms that I'd rather avoid.

We do already have a web API for this, though: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API/Introduction

	Andy McKay
	Comment 2 • 9 years ago

Closing based on comment 1, if that's wrong Gabor, please re-open.

	Nancy Grossman
	Comment 3 • 8 years ago

(In reply to Kris Maglione [:kmag] from comment #1)
> We do already have a web API for this, though:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API/Introduction

Is that the right link? Mozilla's documents say that only Chrome implemented the File System API [1], and W3C says the API was abandoned in 2014 [2], yet Bugzilla suggests that something like the API is being developed [3][4].

I don't understand. Is the File System API coming back from the dead, or is there some other extension-accessible API in the offing?

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System_API#Browser_compatibility
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/
[3] Bug 1265767
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=filesystem+api

	Kris Maglione [:kmag]
	Comment 4 • 8 years ago

We're not implementing Chrome app APIs. We haven't decided whether to implement a filesystem API, but it's being tracked in bug 1246236.