photonstorm/phaser-site — pull request #6 by Incognito (2014-09-12 12:52:33+00:00)
Title: Replaces silly claim about JS being bad

> Ask yourself this: do you really want JavaScript to have the ability to load files from your local file system? Your immediate answer should of course be "not in a million years!". If JavaScript had free reign while operating under file:// there would be nothing stopping it loading pretty much any file it fancied and sending it off who knows where.

This is absurd. There's nothing inherently wrong with JavaScript the language accessing the file system, and one can easily imagine a world where security policy can better manage these things. The reality is that browsers just don't permit it without special launch flags like `--allow-file-access-from-files` in chrome.