I guess I wasn't clear enough. It's not a proposal, it's a 'could have been'.
Yes, it's an application but it's defined within a html page and run by a javascript capable browser.
From the home page of
http://tiddlywiki.com/TiddlyWiki is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript .....
Looking at TiddlyEmpty
.html line 1:
Looking at TiddlyEmpty5
.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
All that effort to disable local file writes and all the subsequent effort to develop work-arounds.
IF ONLY the browser file write had been conditional on a WRITABLE element in DOCTYPE, sigh!
Crying over spilled milk,
~GeoD