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		ashleyn on Nov 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take th... Microsoft flirted with it as far back as Windows 95, in the form of the HTA (HTML Application).

_wmd on Nov 17, 2017 [–]

HTA were awesome, I wrote a very rich UI Innosetup-alike entirely in it back in the late 90s. Everything was there, it exposed pretty much any system interface via COM, and everything pristinely documented in Microsoft style

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