Is it possible to load a file with JS/HTML5 FileReader on non served page?

Question

I want to create a simple game in HTML5/JS and I don't want the user to run any webserver or to have to connect to a website. (just an HTML page)

But it looks like FileReader can only be used on files type inputs.

Is it possible to have only two files : index.html and foo.txt side by side and to read foo.txt from index.html with something like :

// No input needed, I know waht I want to read
var my_file = new File("foo.txt");
var reader = new FileReader();
alert( reader.readAstext( my_file, "UTF-8" ) );

Any idea ?

Answer 1

I believe that this is your answer: How to open a local disk file with Javascript?

In short, you are looking something like this:

<input type="file" id="files" name="file" />

HTML5 allows you to load files which are stored locally on computer, but you cannot select it. User must select file which he/she wants to be loaded.

Just imagine what would happen when developers (or better spoken, hackers) would have access to everyones local data...