With this and Ruffle, we will soon return to the days of Internet Explorer 6 but with 4k monitors!
All we need now is to run ActiveX. I think BottledWine can run Windows executables in the browser, how hard would it be to simulate the ActiveX bindings?
If you run Windows and are jonesing for some ActiveX action, and want to be really careful, you can run WSL, run LXDE on WSL, and run https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 on Firefox on LXDE[1].
That’s maybe enough layers of indirection to make ActiveX safe :-)
This reminds me of the time I was running Linux on my desktop PC back in high school. I'd just received a very suspicious .exe email attachment, and to demonstrate Linux's inherent safety (despite not running any antivirus software!) to a friend, I double-clicked it – and Wine, invoked through binfmt_misc, perfectly emulated the virus it contained, writing garbage to my home directory (fortunately mostly the emulated Windows directories in it!).
Context: a classic episode from the Flash animation series Homestar Runner (and my favorite) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1F4W8-DqjE. Original release date January 2003.
Does anyone know a simple and portable flash and java player? A firefox 3 in a folder, or something like that. Or maybe a small linux in a virtual machine.
I had a book on DHTML in the late 90s long before ajax was a thing. It simply meant scripting the DOM. The MS version did have some fancy transition filters too.
They were. Microsoft Outlook Web Access was exactly that, it's why Microsoft invented XHR. Google Maps later got a lot of credit for kicking off "Ajax", but OWA laid the groundwork.
While we’re narrowing actuallys, it was Gmail that got the credit. And somewhat relevant to the article, I believe that was Google’s first major showcase of the Java-based GWT.
All we need now is to run ActiveX. I think BottledWine can run Windows executables in the browser, how hard would it be to simulate the ActiveX bindings?