Hi,

I read through the HTML5 filesystem API, copied and tried to run the code I saw for creating and writing to files
from browsers, but it still wouldn't work. I have checked different questions on stackoverflow.com and tried out
the different suggestions they had... no results. (The codes for the project I am working on will be run on from users
local servers so I am using only Javascript).

Please is there someone here who successfully wrote into local files from a browser using javascript??
I have pasted my very short code in the link below and was wondering if someone could look at it and
help me out... or better still you can just tell me exactly what you did to generate and write to files
on your local computer.



I have completed almost everything on this project and this is the only part remaning. Thanks for you help!

ps: I am new to web programming so please ignore some of the mistakes I may have made up there...

please say something if you can help...

Can i know what you are trying to acheive with this? writing to files from a web/browser application would be difficult due to security issues.

yes, from my experience with adobe flash and java applets
your user needs extended privilege to be able to write to the local file system

in both cases, you have to code in a way that lets your user accept the the extended privilege required.
I am sure html5 wont be an exception.

try google

Thanks Guys...

I am trying to make modifications to the google-voice-speech to text source code here:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

I want a situation whereby I can have voice transcriptions written to a local file while it is being displayed online. After searching online, I successfully found a way to directly download any voice transcription made after a speaker has finished talking. My project partner however is not satisfied with this because what we want is to be able to write to files directly while the speaker is still talking.

From what I got here: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/, it seems like it's possible to directly write to local files from chrome browser using this demo as an example:

function onInitFs(fs) {

fs.root.getFile('log.txt', {create: true}, function(fileEntry) {

// Create a FileWriter object for our FileEntry (log.txt).
fileEntry.createWriter(function(fileWriter) {

fileWriter.onwriteend = function(e) {
console.log('Write completed.');
};

fileWriter.onerror = function(e) {
console.log('Write failed: ' + e.toString());
};

// Create a new Blob and write it to log.txt.
var blob = new Blob(['Lorem Ipsum'], {type: 'text/plain'});

fileWriter.write(blob);

}, errorHandler);

}, errorHandler);

}

window.requestFileSystem(window.TEMPORARY, 1024*1024, onInitFs, errorHandler);
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I haven't been able to make this work and would be glad to get help from anyone with more web programming experience. I have only worked on projects not involving the web so far and this is my first time delving into it.