The File System and You

The tricky parts of working with the File System API Yet another time I stand in front of a problem that needs to read files from the user device. Furthermore, read and keep a reference to files from the user device. There are two parts to this story, one with broad browser support, and another that is Chrome Only™. The problem I was working on an application that two things: a directory with images, and an SQLite database with metadata about those images. The application viewing logic itself was simple, it queried the database for some properties and then displayed images accordingly. Then there was the application editing logic, that one, was not so simple. In short, a user could crop the images and update the metadata on the database. On the surface, it is all nice and doable from a…