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what was the api like back then that let a webpage write to storage? Was it just calling the browser’s “save webpage” thing? And storing the state in html somehow?

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you saved like you can "save page as" now from the browser menu.

That part still works in modern browsers. What broke were the browser extension APIs for automatically saving to the file system without a dialog.

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