Is it possible to load a file with JS/HTML5 FileReader on non served page?

Question

I want to create a simple game in HTML5/JS and I don\'t want the user to run any webserver or to have to connect to a website. (just an HTML page)

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Answer 1

This is an old question and I'm sure that plenty of people have run into the same problems since but once JS gets towards being a standalone application ( and this is an annoying thing to have to hack one's way around but I guess increasingly JS apps will be client-server anyways ) then it starts to be necessary to put together some supporting tools anyway.

One way to create data in a maintainable way and then pass it to JavaScript that I am using is to write a simple script that takes a set of content files and parses the content into JSON in a big old data.js file. This can then be included and behave exactly the same as regular Javascript objects. One could also use JSON to store the data in the first place, of course, but that is a lot more verbose than something like simple CSV if you have a lot of data for your application.