fs VS daedalOS

You can use File System Standard https://fs.spec.whatwg.org/ to write data for that origin (Firefox doesn't implement File System Access API, nonetheless a File object can still be written to local disk using File API).

Both Firefox and Chromium (Chrome) have implemented WHATWG File System Standard.

Can you just slow down for a moment and focus on what you said?

> We're literally in the discussion about File System API that is:

> - not on any standards track

As others have pointed out the standard is here:

https://fs.spec.whatwg.org/

> - considered harmful by other browser vendors

It is literally being drafted in conjunction by all the major browsers.

> - shipped by default in Chrome

So what? I for one am thankful that Chromium enables features earlier than other browsers. If you don't want the Chromium implementation then don't use it.

Score another point for memfs, the in-memory node.js fe impl.

WHATWG recently took up File System Access spec as their FS spec. It both looks semi promising, but they seem to only care about & are only building specs for specifically emscripten wasm users. Only sync apis, only usable from dedicated workers... there's some hopes for more latter but feels super weird to see the web finally get fs access & have it be fast... but for it to be extremely odd shaped hand tailored to a very narrow class of use.

https://fs.spec.whatwg.org/

I've learned so much while making this project into my personal website (dustinbrett.com). It's made me a much better web developer as I have tried to emulate a desktop environment with pixel perfect accuracy using CSS, HTML & JavaScript.

I'm very happy to announce that my personal website has once again been nominated for a Webby Award!

This has also been ported to the web via Emscripten. I host it on my website if anyone wants to play. https://dustinbrett.com/?app=SpaceCadet

Demo: https://dustinbrett.com/

As someone who built a website around this idea, I agree! The desktop metaphor is powerful. If anyone wants to check it out it's at https://dustinbrett.com

Very cool! It's always refreshing to see the "OS in the browser" projects that try and actually make something functional. I've been working on one myself for nearly 3 years now, called daedalOS (https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS).

The WASM kernel idea is very cool and I hope one day to be able to add something similar to my project. I think you are onto something and I am excited to see your progress as you implement the GUI.

If you want some Browserception, my desktop environment (https://dustinbrett.com/) can indeed do this. But after a few levels in Chromium you need to add a random query string (/?a=1) to the URL otherwise it stops working.