> but trying to save data required hosting it somewhere With the File System Access API, webpages nowadays can read and write local files just like desktop applications: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file... Try this text editor for example:…

Try to go here then, https://webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samples/ Or here, https://webusb.github.io/arduino/demos/rgb/ Or here, https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/

From my perspective, the biggest flaw in FireFox is that it does not support the File System Access API. Because with it, we can offer users to hold their data natively on their devices. Instead of storing everything in the cloud. Chrome on the desktop supports it. Here is a demo:…

The one browser API I wish every browser would support is the File System Access API. Because with it, we can offer users to hold their data natively on their devices. Instead of storing everything in the cloud. So far, I think only Chrome on the desktop supports it. Here is a nice demo:…

I would love to build my next web project so it will not save any data on the server but let the user save it locally via the File System Access API. That would give the user the same experience as with a desktop application. Full control over their data, saved locally. The problem is that,…

It's possible to do this in Safari and Firefox as well, it's just that the experience isn't as seamless - instead of writing to the existing file a new copy will be downloaded. You can see this in the demo here: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/

You might wanna consider the file system access api on chromiums https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/ There is both a public and a private filesystem mode.

capableweb isn't telling you how capable the web has become, see https://googlechromelabs.github.io/text-editor/ note: probably works best in chromium browsers

While in-memory databases have their uses, it kneecaps SQLite into something far less useful. To build any kind of app with it, we need the ability to write and persist. Another approach than writing the data to a server could be to allow the user to store it on their own hard disk. This could be…