[Javascript] client side file i/o

[Cutter (JavaScript List)]

Vadi,

To my knowledge, this is not capable using javascript. I have never seen 
any documentation allowing javascript access into the client system 
outside of the browser. If you were only using Windows and IE you would 
be able to use JScript (an MS scripting language, similar to 
javascript), but I see this would not meet your requirements. There are 
too many security concerns to allow a browser scripting language access 
to a client system...

Cutter

Vadi wrote:

>
>  Hello List!!
>
>   I'm newbie, I'm trying to read a file from the local drive at 
> client  machine.
> This is not allowed by default, but it allows us to do with signed 
> applets,
> loading a signed applet takes time, I was wondering If there is a way to
> read local files without applets and without using ActiveXObjects, as I
> want to make it platform dependent.
>
>  I'm working with respect to netscape, IE is not considered. Help is  
> required
> immediate.
>
>  Thanks in advance.
>