Accessing the Native File system

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Unfortunately this looks like it won’t be possible based on the security design of this feature:

  1. The API will deny requests for user decisions coming from 3rd-party frames.

You could petition the browser vendors to add support for this. Alternatively, it might be possible for Observable to pass-through access to native files in the future, like we’ve done for FileAttachment.

In the meantime here’s another way to read local files:

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