Access local files from HTML5 Desktop Application in html folder

Question

HTML5 is great and I can replace my existing desktop application with it, but just a little security restriction prevents me to complete my job. I plan to create a simple de

Answer 1

If you need that file so much, why not just load it dynamically inside a JS script as a json object.

So, in other words, put the contents of the file into a js script, and strucutre the file contents into JSON format, then load that script on load or when you require it.

Alternately if you need file IO use localstorage.

Answer 2

according to this site, launching chrome from the cmd with the parameter --allow-file-access-from-files will disable this security feature