HTML Applications
HTML Applications (HTAs) brings Microsoft Internet Explorer to the fore as a viable Microsoft Windows development platform. HTAs are full-fledged applications. These applications are trusted and display only the menus, icons, toolbars, and title information that the Web developer creates. In short, HTAs pack all the power of Internet Explorer—its object model, performance, rendering power, protocol support, and channel-download technology—without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser.
Historically, programming languages like C++ and Microsoft Visual Basic® have provided the object models and access to system resources that developers demand. With HTA it is now time to add Dynamic HTML (DHTML) with script to that list. HTAs not only support everything a Web page does—namely HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), scripting languages, and behaviors—but also HTA-specific functionality. This added functionality provides control over user interface design and access to the client system. Moreover, run as trusted applications, HTAs are not subject to the same security constraints as Web pages. As with any executable file, the user is asked once, before the HTA is downloaded, whether to save or run the application; if saved to the client machine, it simply runs on demand thereafter. The end result is that HTAs runs like any executable (.exe) written in C++ or Visual Basic.
Simple HTA example (first.hta)
Hello, World
<html>
<br><br>
From <br>
<b>Nasir Ali Khan</b>
</html>