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0 pointsest7y ago0 comments

HTA combined with ActiveXObject can do so much more than crappy w3c standard stuff.

dHTML FTW!

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Piskvorrr7y ago· 2 in thread

Yup. Alas, that's not a feature, that's a gaping security hole. (Had the misfortune of working on a HTA e-mail client. Turns out, some of the VBS viruses of the age were executable in HTA context...hilarity ensued.)

estOP7y ago

electron apps are basically static linked sandbox.

I am sure upgrading static linked programs is easy. :D

Piskvorrr7y ago

If I could warrant a guess, it would be a completely new version to go over to the "shared-renderer" model.

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