Can a website (HTML5,JavaScript) access a mobile device's (android/iPhone) contact list, SDCard files

Question

Can a website (HTML5,JavaScript) access a mobile device\'s (android/iPhone)
contact list, SDCard files? A website as in one opened in a browser not a phonegap applicatio

Answer 1

There was an attempt at the W3C to create a browser API to access contacts from the browser. This is often mentioned as one of the new HTML5 APIs.

However the attempt never became a real specification and never got implemented by any browser vendors. Now it is officially discontinued:

http://www.w3.org/TR/contacts-api/