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  • Third-party IFrames in HTA Applications

    I've posted before about setting Application = "Yes" on iframes in HTA applications, but if the iframe is rendered by a third-party component then this may not be straightforward. If the iframe runs JavaScript accessing it's parent window then somehow the iframe must be modified to pass the security...
    Posted to Jon Sayce (Weblog) by jonsayce on 01-22-2008

  • Drag and drop problems in HTA frames

    During our recent migration to HTA we discovered a problem dragging hyperlinks within frames (either <FRAMESET> or <IFRAME>). The problem was that dragging the contents of an <A> element onto a frame caused the link to be loaded in the frame - it was as if the hyperlink were being clicked...
    Posted to Jon Sayce (Weblog) by jonsayce on 01-10-2008

  • Why you shouldn't use window.open in HTA

    Running an HTA application alongside a browser can hide (or create) some nasty bugs if you're not opening your windows correctly. An HTA application removes almost all of the useful development tools available in a browser window, so it's common for HTA-developers to also use normal browsers, but this...
    Posted to Jon Sayce (Weblog) by jonsayce on 11-26-2007

  • Browsers, processes, cookies and session state

    Opening the same web page in multiple browser tabs or windows can cause some serious problems if that page relies on cookies or session state. If you're lucky, the problem will be obvious to the user but it's quite possible that they'll be completely unaware of it until after they've corrupted some data...
    Posted to Jon Sayce (Weblog) by jonsayce on 11-06-2007

  • Converting to HTA

    An HTML Application (HTA) is a special HTML page which runs with the same security privileges as a normal window executable. It's displayed using the IE rendering engine but without any of the IE GUI or security model. HTA systems are sometimes used to supply the UI on CDs and DVDs (e.g. the SQL Server...
    Posted to Jon Sayce (Weblog) by jonsayce on 10-08-2007
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