On Oct 29, 2013, at 1:15 PM, John Monahan wrote:That would be unlikely. There are a lot of very good reasons that web browsers (and _javascript_ programs within them) are not given direct access to filesystems or devices. Remember ActiveX, and the horrible things it could do to your computer if you let it run a malicious script? :-)
> That’s a really neat piece of software! Thanks for pointing it out.
> I have not had a chance to read the doc’s in detail yet, but what would be nice is if one could simply insert a disk (3.5” or older) in my machine and have it directly R/W to the disk. If I understand things, currently is not the case, you have to make some kind of image/URL etc.
But yes, it's a really neat concept. I'm seeing these a lot as browsers and their _javascript_ interpreters become more powerful. I remember the days when even a Telnet app in Java (which is a much more efficient language than _javascript_) was taxing to run.
- Dave
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