I am trying to find a way where I can read a local text file using java script. am aware of file reader API however I want to do this in IE7 and the filereader is for IE10 above. Been searching the web and not many good solutions come up? any ideas?   thanks
Is there local file manipulation that's been done with JavaScript? I'm looking for a solution that can be accomplished with no install footprint like requiring .  Specifically, I'd like to read the contents from a file and write those contents to another file. At this point I'm not worried about gaining permissions and am just assuming I already have full permissions to these files.
Let's get rid of the 10K flag queue are pretty cool... You get a birds-eye view of activity on the site, a &quot;dashboard&quot; view of what's happening. Some of the individual tools haven't scaled particularly well with Stack Overflow's growth, but the concept behind them is still sound: we trust you to enough to be a bee watcher now.  ...and then there's . What a let-down! Once upon a time, this queue contained spam and offensive flags, which one might reasonably assume were important enough to put in front of the more trusted members of the site. Re-flagging them brought them that much closer to deletion, while editing them offered salvation to some hapless author. Nowadays, it's a bunch of Not an Answer flags and a smattering of assorted cruft. 10K users can't even vote to delete these; only 20K users have that privilege. Re-flagging them does nothing but increase their priority in the moderator flag queue, where they frequently outrank more pressing issues;  has . Also, it's , and the behavior has diverged far enough from that of the moderator flag queue on which it is based that it has become an active hindrance to further development of the tooling there. Worst of all, we have  that's available to anyone with the editing privilege. It even has logic built in to prioritize answers likely to be deleted for users with . It's like we gave you a car for your 10th birthday, and then replaced it with a rusty bicycle when you turned 16. It was a nice idea, but it has outlived its usefulness. Proposed changes The /tools/flagged route goes away. Period. No replacement. The rest of the 10K tools stick around as informational pages. Not an Answer flags go into /review/low-quality, . Then we beef up the Low Quality review process to make better use of more experienced reviewers and solve this whole &quot;declined / helpful / disputed&quot; flag debate once and for all:  Effective # of reviews required == ReviewsRequired + # of applicable flags (where ReviewsRequired is 2 on Stack Overflow, 1 everywhere else). So 1 VLQ or NAA flag means EffectiveReviewsRequired=3. LQ tasks are not dequeued until one of the following conditions is met:  Post is edited from within review. Outcome: flags are marked &quot;helpful&quot; (current behavior). Post accumulates 3 Delete votes (can only happen when post scores &lt;= 0 and reviewers have &gt;= 20K rep). Outcome: post is deleted, flags are marked &quot;helpful&quot;. Task accumulates EffectiveReviewsRequired &quot;Looks Good&quot; reviews. Outcome: if the number of (Recommend)Delete reviews is &gt;= the number of Looks Good reviews, mark flags &quot;disputed&quot; and raise DisputedLowQuality mod flag. Otherwise, mark flags &quot;declined&quot;. Task accumulates 6* RecommendDelete + Delete reviews. Outcome: mark flags &quot;helpful&quot;. If the post scores &gt; 0 then raise DisputedLowQuality mod flag, else just delete post (current behavior).   As under the current system, flags on posts that've already completed one full review cycle without being deleted should skip /review and go directly into the mod queue.  End result  Flags get handled faster, more accurately, and with less wasted effort from 10K reviewers. Moderators are free to focus on situations that can't be handled by the community - the ! Developers are free to make enhancements to the moderator tooling without having to work around 10K user restrictions.  Questions Am I forgetting anything here? I haven't really spent much time in the 10K flag queue since back when it was filled with spam flags and therefore useful - is there a use-case that you depend on that would be lost with its removal? 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Lately I feel boredom each time I see a new question and start answering it only to realize after the first written sentence that I have answered similar questions five times over or seen them answered some ten times or more. I know where it's going to be going and what answers with what votes it is going to receive before any answer is even written.  It's obviously not the administration's fault, it is simply so. The questions is, what to do about it? Engaging more moderators to close and close duplicates won't work because it's already starting to repel users who get mad at their questions closed and become afraid of asking more or perhaps just go away.  The original idea of Jeff stated the the site is for questions that can be answered. Meaning no open-ended discussions. When I first read this I had a casual thought - well, and what's gonna happen when they all are asked and answered? Will it become a museum, a monument of wisdom and knowledge or what?  I'm not sure what to do about it. Perhaps deprecation/versioning of older questions so that their new versions can sparkle the tiresome evening...  POSTSCRIPTUM.  I recall Star Trek Voyager episode  when another Q asked Captain Janeway for asylum. He was tired of immortality and wanted to die. They opened a hearing and went on to visit the continuum to evaluate the living conditions there which caused the suffering and the wish to escape it in death. A lifeless picture presented itself to the visitors... a house lone in an open space, two people going about their business, nobody talking. When asked why they were silent, the following was said. It's been so long, all has already been said, all stories told, all jokes are made... there is nothing left to do...  Are we there as well?  UPDATE: Just saw this answer in another question:       Also, some of the core questions got asked early on in the life of the site. 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