Can you use HTML5 local storage to store a file? If not, how?

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The FileSystem API[1,2] was going to be your best bet going forward, at one point it was very much bleeding edge. However it has been been abandoned by w3c. From their own documentation:

Work on this document has been discontinued and it should not be referenced or used as a basis for implementation.

  1. http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/file-system/pub/FileSystem/
  2. http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/file/filesystem/

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