Using the Html5 Filesystem API

This is a short introduction to the HTML5 Filesystem API, but with an emphasis on the Google Chrome implementation. The author states that at the time of writing this book, only the Chrome browser implemented the API.

The HTML5 FileSystem API will give web applications desktop-like capabilities such as the ability to create a hierarchy of file folders and save binary or textual contents to them, locally within a user's hard drive. This API can be used in addition to or in lieu of other proposed local storage mechanisms such as those oriented around the use of a database.