Read JSON from local disk using browser

Question

I am working on a content management project where from a tool we generate html/js/css and image files. The data we store in JSON format.

Now, I want to play the contents using browser without any server, i checked some threads and it suggests that it may be possible using file:// protocol, I want to check if there is any limitation if I am not using any server. Or it is not possible to omit http server..

The other thing is that, I can't use concept of local storage because my data size is huge and in HTML5 the max size supported is 10 MB my requirement is approx 25 MB.

Please suggest.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Seems like an odd thing to do for a CMS, no? You can use the readfile API but you're limiting yourself to IE10+: http://caniuse.com/filereader

Edit, maybe should've been a comment but... If the data is only on clients computer, who can read the content of the CMS? Or are you creating 10MB+ files on every users computer?