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JasonStockman
JasonStockman

Reputation: 532

Can I use Javascript to save a file to the user's file system in Firefox and Safari?

I understand that this is possible in Chrome and Opera, using the HTML5 FileWriter API, but this is not supported for Firefox and Safari. Is there any other solutions?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 140

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Jeremy J Starcher
Jeremy J Starcher

Reputation: 23863

You didn't give enough details for a good answer ... things like

  • Is this a one-time download
  • Do you need to read-back this information?

I'm going to address the question, as you asked it:

Yes, there is a way to save a file to the local file system on many of the newer browsers, but it can't be down automatically by using the HTML5 download attribute.

The user-experience is much the same as downloading other types of files.

More details can be found here:

http://webreflection.blogspot.com/2011/08/html5-how-to-create-downloads-on-fly.html

Upvotes: 1

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