I know you won't believe me but I *really* need to make a "video player" type of page which would enable the user to load and view his own video (stored locally). I'm not being stupid, the website will enable other features which would justify viewing videos using the page (undisclosed).
However, as you may know, the "file://" is rightfully blocked by browsers when a "remote" page tries to access local files. So I can't just slap it in the video tag - it won't open it. Unfortunately, so far the only way for a user to allow this is to manually change browser settings in "about:config". I think we all agree no one wants to do that.
Now I don't want to steal anything - eg. a browse style button that would enable this would be perfect. But downloading to the user's computer (which would enable "file://") and opening it locally defeats the whole purpose of it being a web page.
Downloading third party plugins is also out of the question (especially the proprietary ones). So you see, I'm in a bit of a trouble here. Is there *anything* I could do to load the file that user wants to load (no upload, I can't host videos, nor spare bandwidth to send it back to the user which is a ridiculous idea anyway)? Javascript, new html5 stuff; canvas, drafts, experimental stuff, dirty hacks, I'll go for absolutely anything.
Apart from 1k geek points for *any* helpful suggestion. Possible other kinds of rewards
