Microsoft Wins HTML App Patent

crataegus writes "'Microsoft on Tuesday won a patent for launching a certain kind of HTML application within Windows. The patent, "Method and apparatus for writing a Windows application in HTML" (Hypertext Markup Language), describes Microsoft's way of opening up HTML applications in a window free of navigation and other interface elements, known as "chrome," and browser security restrictions.' Why does this sound vaguely familiar?"

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Add Remove Programs.hta and mshta.exe

[KevMar]

Rename your .htm to .hta and run it localy on a windows system. Do a task list and you will see a mshta.exe is the task.

Now kill it, and your page dies too

in win2k and newer try this"
open control Panel and run Add/Remove Programs
You are looking at hta in action.

kill mshta.exe again, Add/Remove Programs dies as well.

I find HTA handy when I dont want to load visual studio for a quick app that I would rather run as a web page, but I can't because I need more system level access. A quick VBScript or JScript with a html frontend in notepad works wonders.

FYI: Little help is actualy written for HTA, but realize it is a mix of Script and HTML working together named *.hta