Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by dfox on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @04:57PM
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There is simple counterargument: there is integrated runtime for webapps in windows since at least windows 98 (probably since 95 desktop update bundled with IE4). Just rename HTML file to .hta. Running that gets you IE window without any browser UI and scripts in the page run outside any sandbox and can interact with windows API anyway they want. Various windows components are exactly this.
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Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by erikpukinskis on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:08PM
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Most users can't rename files, so this feature de facto doesn't exist.
Re:22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks
by drdaeman on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @05:59PM
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Why users have to rename anything? Do they have to rename .exes or .msi?
In early '00s, there surely were apps made and distributed as .hta files. Not much as .exes, of course, because even with ActiveX, DHTML was quite limited.
Heck, when I was in school, me and a buddy wrote a desktop web chat client using that tech (we wanted fancy text formatting and image posting that "official" webchat page hadn't, but we had - because it server lacked proper HTML sanitization, lol)