A CONSORTIUM of developers is looking for a way that will allow users to edit locally saved files in web apps.
The grou, led by teams from Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, has a few hurdles to overcome before we can even think about this sort of thing as “normal”, because exposing offline files to the internet is fraught with danger.
At the moment, users need to upload files, edit them and download them again to minimise the risk of dodgy payloads getting a free pass to your hardware.
