There were definitely many issues with Win32 that HTML has fixed, but the controls available in Windows 98 were significantly more numerous and featureful than

There were definitely many issues with Win32 that HTML has fixed, but the controls available in Windows 98 were significantly more numerous and featureful than what HTML5 offers, even today. You could certainly react to mouse hovers. It also had: • Tree view controls • Table views, with draggable, resizable and sortable headers • Image list views • Menu bars (something HTML will probably never have!) • Context menus • Embeddable file explorer views • A rich text editor control that wasn't plagued with weird formatting and cursor movement bugs • Embeddable Word/Excel/PowerPoint if you needed more than that • Date/time pickers (something HTML didn't get until 2014 and I never see any real app use it) • A calendar widget • Tab views • Toolbars • Wizards/task dialogs There's some docs here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/individual-control-info https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/ind... To get these many of these on the web you need to import large third party frameworks, because HTML5 doesn't offer them out of the box. So apps are all very inconsistent.