On: BrowserFS: an in-browser filesystem with many back...

[_cronjob]

Ordinarily, there's a hard cross-orgin security policy separating URLs like:

  file:///Users/user/plain.txt

From:

  http://example.com/plain.txt

I feel like something that blurs this boundary could be dangerous for non-developers and less techincal folks.

Things like Flash and Java applets often bridged that gap, causing many problems.

I wonder how many people understand the reasons for a clear distinction between browsing files on your machine with an FS explorer, versus an isolated file store jailed or sandboxed to the browser?

[vertex-four → _cronjob]

This... doesn't do that. As evident in the README. It's a VFS API across a bunch of things you could do anyway.