Using HTML5/JavaScript to generate and save a file

Question

I\'ve been fiddling with WebGL lately, and have gotten a Collada reader working. Problem is it\'s pretty slow (Collada is a very verbose format), so I\'m going to start conv

Answer 1

HTML5 defined a window.saveAs(blob, filename) method. It isn't supported by any browser right now. But there is a compatibility library called FileSaver.js that adds this function to most modern browsers (including Internet Explorer 10+). Internet Explorer 10 supports a navigator.msSaveBlob(blob, filename) method (MSDN), which is used in FileSaver.js for Internet Explorer support.

I wrote a blog posting with more details about this problem.