WebGL build: writing to disk, PlayerPrefs, etc...

When thinking about saving player state across scenes for a WebGL solution, can we still write to disk as we would from a Desktop build? Is there another solution outside of AJAX calls with state saved on a remote machine?

 

I am not a expert but you can use webstorage (localstorage) for this.

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp

 

@Onsterion
I think that would be a good option for PlayerPrefs, but my particular use-case is a local log file which might not make a whole lot of sense as key-value pairs. Other thoughts?

 

You cannot directly write files to disk from Javascript, it would be way too much of a security risk.

 

@PhobicGunner
Yes. How might you consider creating and storing log data in a WebGL powered solution?

 

Depends. Who needs to get access to the logs?

 

@PhobicGunner
Researchers as a post-process, nothing in realtime.

 

Could always have a web server running somewhere and a PHP script. Client gathers log data, and then at the end of a session it POSTS said log data to your PHP script which saves it as a text file on your server.

 

I believe System.IO works, or will within WebGL. The difference is that you wont be writing to disk, but rather the browsers isolated store which is essentially a database.

 

The entire System.IO namespace?

 

I'm not positive, I just thought I had read that somewhere...