Is it possible to use any HTML5 fanciness to export local storage to Excel?

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This question is similar, but doesn\'t highlight any possibilities to export the data. Thoughts?

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any Javascript libraries which can make an Excel file. But you could simply export it as HTML or CSV - note that Javascript cannot make files (yet), but the working draft of HTML caters for this: http://www.w3.org/TR/file-writer-api/

Excel is quite good at reading tables made in HTML, so you could simply do that and open the HTML file with Excel.

You can create a file for download using Downloadify: https://github.com/dcneiner/Downloadify