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Back in the Win98 days, I think a .hta (html application) was meant to be that - like .html but opens as an "application". Never really took off though, I presu
by red_admiral 6y ago
Back in the Win98 days, I think a .hta (html application) was meant to be that - like .html but opens as an "application". Never really took off though, I presume due to lack of APIs at the time.
- tmzt 6y agoIt had access to the full VBScript or JScript runtime and WScript host. This means you could do OLE Automation, filesystem access, network access, registry access, and I believe invoke processes. At the same time, companies were locking down WScript due to scripting viruses and HTAs that were impersonating other applications with their configrable icons.