Question

A quick question, I recently checked out the new html5 File api for javascript. See it here. Is it possible to use it to pull in a server side file without ajax? I know there’s a File object in JavaScript, could I do a “new File(“serverSideStuff.xml”);” with that?

Answer 1

From the API description –

Using the File API added to the DOM in HTML5, it’s now possible for
web content to ask the user to select local files, then read the
contents of those files.

So no, you can’t select server side files