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by L3viathan 795 days ago
The counter-proposal is: don't do it. This comment by the Apple guy sums it up well IMHO:

> Colleagues and I have discussed this and don't see a way to grant write access to the end user's local file system in a way that safeguards the end user's interests.
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agust 795 days ago
So they can make it to work for platform-specific apps that they tax 30%, but can't make it to work for interoperable web apps which they can't tax. How convenient.
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madeofpalk 795 days ago
Safari already supports a permission-less file system API with a very similar security model to iOS's filesystem access.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

https://webkit.org/blog/12257/the-file-system-access-api-wit...

It's able to support this because the 'file system' is scoped specifically to that origin, and doesn't allow access to any aribtary location on the file sytem, just like iOS.

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hu3 794 days ago
Your parent comment point still valid.

If Apple made arbitrary file access work for apps [1], surely they could make it work for Safari. But apps pay 30% and websites don't, so it's easy to conclude why they don't want to.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/view_control...

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