Hi,
I'm looking for a way to use a JavaScript function to create a new HTML file in the local directory. Is this possible?
Thanks
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A:
(Client Side) Yes, but you might need to create a new ActiveX Object, therefore the browser should be IE only.
(Server Side) Just use any server-side scripting language (JS is not one).
Ruel
2010-09-30 05:17:16
@Ruel: I am afraid there is server-side Javascript, for instance, Node.js :)
Michael Mao
2010-09-30 05:21:28
There's also Narwhal and RingoJS!
indieinvader
2010-09-30 06:58:15
A:
Just for web sanity and security. Making JS do things like that is obtrusive. You might write a text file someone else might write virus.py on the client side.
Perpetualcoder
2010-09-30 05:20:50
A:
Using javascript to create html is generally a bad idea because that's not what javascript was designed for, and there is nothing about javascript that makes it well-suited for that task. You're much better off generating html with a server-side language like php, which is commonly used to create html.
Dan M
2010-09-30 05:50:00