They click a button to connect with their data. User opens an unhosted webapp (for example, a basic text editor TextyApp).The user experience that makes the most sense to me is something like. The current work around seems to be having the webapp force a specific folder name ahead of time ("this app wants access to /appname_notes"), but that rules out letting the user point it to where they may already have their notes.ĭoes anyone know of a nice way to do this with Google Drive, Dropbox, or the like? getting read access to all their files first).įrom the user's perspective, the webapp shouldn't have access to anything else on the remote file storage except the one folder the user grants it access to (for example, I might grant a text editor access to my FunnyJokes folder). The most notable effort I've found so far is remoteStorage.io, but there doesn't seem to be a way with any major provider to let the user select a directory and then use that as a sandbox without breaking their trust (i.e. There's a lot of talk about "unhosted" static webapps that allow users to access their data from a 3rd party file service (Google Drive, Dropbox, their own server, etc.).
Is there a way to get sandboxed, user-selected directory access on any major file service without first getting read level access to their entire filesystem?
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