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Problem is that VBA in its current shape doesn't work for webbased Excel. Microsoft started with attempting to support Javascript based add-ins [0]. However, t
by sebazzz 7y ago
Problem is that VBA in its current shape doesn't work for webbased Excel. Microsoft started with attempting to support Javascript based add-ins [0].
However, they those are of course light years behind in terms of API support. Never even mind that on the desktop Excel the javascript runs in the Internet Explorer engine (of all things, not even the EdgeHTML engine).
[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/excel-add-ins-core-concepts https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/excel/ex...
- merb 7y agothe last thing of your sentence isn't true anymore: https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office/dev/add-ins/concepts/browsers-used-by-office-web-add-ins https://docs.microsoft.com/de-de/office/dev/add-ins/concepts... it really depends on your platform/version. Keep in mind that they try to use chromium in 2020.
- ed_elliott_asc 7y agoIt isnt the end of the world having different support on different platforms.
- srcmap 7y agoIn theory, MS can compile the VBA engine to web assembly and run VBA code directly on webpage?