Work around for Html5 Local File Access

Question

We are currently looking at porting a enterprise silverlight application over to html5. The major roadblock that we have hit is the ability to open files from the user\'s lo

Answer 1

Using java you can create a "Signed" applet which has access to the local filesystem. (if the applet is signed you can request filesystm permissions)

then there is a tutorial for accessing methods of your java code directly from javascript here: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/invokingAppletMethodsFromJavaScript.html

you should be able to perform something similar from silverlight.