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by mg 398 days ago
Traversing local directories is supported via the File System Access API in browsers these days:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64283711

It works nicely in Chrome on the desktop and on Android. Not sure how the situation is on iOS.
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miramba 398 days ago
But unfortunately not on Safari respectively the iOS webview, which would have been mandatory for the author to use. If I am wrong, I‘d gladly take a solution. I think this is one of the main problems for PWAs: No good , platform-independent way to access the local file system. As in „pick once, access forever“.

Edit: https://caniuse.com/native-filesystem-api

Edit2: Just a few posts down: https://webamp.org/

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mg 398 days ago
I see.

That's a pretty big argument to go with an Android phone.

Being able to write your own tools in HTML is so nice.

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