How did .js files get downloaded to my computer

Active 8 months ago. Viewed k times. Improve this question. Peter Mortensen Jared Jared 5, 8 8 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 47 47 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Summary from the mentioned article: The specification provides several interfaces for accessing files from a 'local' filesystem : File - an individual file; provides readonly information such as name, file size, MIME type, and a reference to the file handle.

FileList - an array-like sequence of File objects. Blob - Allows for slicing a file into byte ranges. See Paul D. Waite's comment below. Improve this answer.

Horst Walter Horst Walter It's not exactly a true filesystem like what we have using Java or Flash plugin. For example, we can't list the files on the user's Desktop unless he first selects them himself.

Looks like these APIs are being abandoned: see w3. Careful there, given the W3C's form for snatching away useful technology. The filesystem api, only implemented in chrome, is not going forward. The file api, has universal support, is accepted as a w3c working draft and we can no longer imagine life without it. Of course we're still in a browser, and we have to wait til the user brings us the file, but this dramatically extends the reach of web apps and is not going away anytime soon.

Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Chase Seibert Chase Seibert This is stupid, of course. Javascript is supposedly an application-agnostic scripting language.

Not every application is a web browser. I came here because I'm interested in scripting Photoshop, for instance. Even if some applications don't provide file access classes, it makes sense to standardize them for those applications where they are appropriate - a standard but optional feature, so experience from one app is transferable even if not universally applicable.

What I learn in Photoshop won't be portable even to other Javascript hosts that allow file access. Javascript the language and do whatever the hosting environment allows it to do. SpiderMonkey can do anything any other language can do. Javascript in the Browser is sandboxed. This answer might have been correct 3 years ago, but it's certainly not correct any longer. Or go here: html5rocks. Ian Campbell - Try reading the whole comment before replying to it.

If you did that you'd know I know about filesystem access in the Photoshop variant of Javascript, but I also know that it's e. Of course since Adobe bought Macromedia, they've obviously standardized, but what about other vendors? AmerllicA Please provide more information about what you are trying to accomplish. Read How to Ask and edit your question accordingly.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. You may use different third-party libraries: jQuery. Improve this answer. Yeldar Kurmangaliyev Yeldar Kurmangaliyev Still its not working I try all Kexin Li Kexin Li 10 10 bronze badges. Legotin Legotin 1, 1 1 gold badge 16 16 silver badges 27 27 bronze badges. Use the code below.

Ashok Baghele Ashok Baghele 1 1 1 bronze badge. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Here's how to toggle SmartScreen off and on in Edge:. With SmartScreen off, you are on your own about which files to download in Edge, but I would urge you to go back and toggle SmartScreen on when you have finished downloading your file. And, of course, only turn it off to download files you know to be safe. In Windows Defender, you can also change Edge's SmartScreen to merely warn you when you are about to download a file it deems suspicious instead of it outright blocking it.

You'll be able to click through the warning and override SmartScreen's concerns and download the file.