The Wonderful World of Web Applications: HTML Apps (HTA)
Just as desktop PCs all but replaced mainframes in the eighties, the web application may be poised to supersede the traditional desktop application. Today, we'll be looking at a Microsoft contribution called HTML Apps (HTA). To get better acquainted with HTAs, we'll try our hand at writing a few simple ones.

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