HTA for firefox? HTA is IE7?
Moderator: General Moderators
HTA for firefox? HTA is IE7?
Is there an .HTA for firefox? Is HTA updated with IE browser, i.e. when updated to IE7 HTA inherits all of IE7 upgrades?
- superdezign
- DevNet Master
- Posts: 4135
- Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:06 pm
Wow.. Umm... I'd never heard of HTA until just now.
And I have to say... It seems like Microsoft felt as though Internet Explorer had too much competition, so they attempted to create something "good" (?) that only works in IE.
That, or they're jealous that they've had to adapt to features that other browsers support, so they hoped they could start something of their own. As though owning the dominant operating system for PCs wasn't enough...
But no, from what I've read so far (and probably all I will read into this), HTA is an IE only thing. And really, anything that's only IE isn't worth anyone's time.
And I have to say... It seems like Microsoft felt as though Internet Explorer had too much competition, so they attempted to create something "good" (?) that only works in IE.
That, or they're jealous that they've had to adapt to features that other browsers support, so they hoped they could start something of their own. As though owning the dominant operating system for PCs wasn't enough...
But no, from what I've read so far (and probably all I will read into this), HTA is an IE only thing. And really, anything that's only IE isn't worth anyone's time.
superdezign... if you read this article, HTA has been available since IE 5 and it is nothing new that IE has proprietary technology.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/auth ... erview.asp
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/auth ... erview.asp
- superdezign
- DevNet Master
- Posts: 4135
- Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:06 pm
That's the only thing I have read, and from the look of it, it's been available since IE4.
I'm commenting on the fact that no other browser seems to have had much reason to adapt Microsoft's HTAs.
Edit: Well now you got me interested, and many places I've look so far exclaim that it is IE5, regardless of what I read in the article you linked me to. However, it still holds true that this is an IE only thing.
I'm commenting on the fact that no other browser seems to have had much reason to adapt Microsoft's HTAs.
Edit: Well now you got me interested, and many places I've look so far exclaim that it is IE5, regardless of what I read in the article you linked me to. However, it still holds true that this is an IE only thing.
- superdezign
- DevNet Master
- Posts: 4135
- Joined: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:06 pm
see http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XB ... _Reference and http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/JellyFish wrote:What is XBL?
never heard of it before but seems to be almost the same thing as hta (which I really liked when coding for ie)