How to read/write local files through a web page?

Question

I am writing a html based app, and want to store and retrieve data from local file. This app will not be hosted on a web server.

Can anyone please help enlighten the

Answer 1

Try HTML 5 FileSystem API

Below links has details

http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/pub/FileSystem/

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/