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Google's all about the web. Even local apps are web apps in their world.

Which isn't to say that's a bad idea...

That doesn't justify passing 700 megabyte files via my browser when they could be simply opened being local.

It's open source under a permissive license...

Actually this project was an acquisition. That's how it worked when they bought it from the Freebase guys.

I knew about the Freebase integration but didn't know it came from them. Thanks!

It is local, it's just the browser is the interface. Or am I missing something?

You can't select a local file. You have to upload file even if it's local.

It's been a while since I used refine, but IIRC it just ran on localhost and I didn't have to upload anything.

You run it on localhost but you upload files from your localhost into your localhost. Which is the point.

Browser security policy for HTML+JS content?