Comments on: MS HTML Applications

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:09:11 +0000

could someone tell me where i can find the code, or maybe provide some snippets of code that will allow me to create a self-updating SPA. I keep trying to find it on the net and it’s just confusing.
I’m trying to write a HTML application for studying chinese characters (flashcard program with integrated card editor).
any help would be….. helpful :P

By: BillyG

BillyG — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 04:32:34 +0000

looks like you posted a day early:

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/032106-microsoft-ie-bugs.html

By: bigusfickes

bigusfickes — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:10:23 +0000

Anybody who uses a windows OS uses HTAs. Add / Remove Programs would be the most common example, but they’re used all throughout windows. Don’t be suprised MS has a patent, they only run in IE on windows. If you do some researching on MSDN about IE on windows DHTML capabilities, you’ll notice that IE can do pretty much everything explorer.exe can do. And it’s been like this since at least IE5.0.

If you interested in HTAs, have a look at this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp

By: Jerry Mead

Jerry Mead — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 20:28:57 +0000

Here’s the prior art cited on Microsoft’s patent:

http://www.zeepe.com/

These days Zeepe offers an ultra set of HTA functionality.

By: CWolves

CWolves — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:09:10 +0000

Um…I use HTA’s all the time. I have one that monitors my clipboard every 100ms or so. If I copy a URL that is over 80 characters it uses XMLHTTP to go to my server, add the URL to a DB and get a much shorter URL (21-22 chars total) and copies it back to my clipboard. This happens in a fraction of a second, so I just copy a URL then paste it and voila, a short URL. If I copy the same URL twice the feature is disabled.

I don’t get any alerts…so I’m not sure why it says you get an alert every time…

By: Joe Anderson

Joe Anderson — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:14:31 +0000

I use quite a lot of HTAs.

By: kourge

kourge — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:39:13 +0000

This is actually old news.
I noticed the HTA on Office 2003 Beta’s CD two years ago, and found it interesting.