[Tfug] Poor man's GUI

Matt Jacob matt at jacobmail.org
Mon Mar 10 23:42:43 MST 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014, at 23:13, Bexley Hall wrote:
> But I *think* I don't even need that!  I.e., if "Save" (or "Save As")
> saves a copy of the web page/form *with* the controls in their
> modified states, then a local executable can examine it instead of
> having to "submit" it back to an active "server".  I.e., treat
> the file system as the "server" (with the caveat that the file
> system BY ITSELF can't act on the data)

I doubt you're going to find that browsers behave as you're
hoping---honestly, the thought has never even crossed my mind before, so
I have no idea---but maybe there's a Firefox or Chrome extension that
can support the behavior you're after.

Matt




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