[madeofpalk]

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.

[hu3]

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...