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Back to the Future: Microsoft HTML Applications
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03/19/2006, By Russell Beattie
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A couple people emailed me today to tell me that the Windows Scripting Host stuff is still alive and kicking in response to my thought that FireFox should come with a Javascript command line interface. I knew that, actually, but I couldn’t get it to do anything too exciting the last time I tried it. But after I got those emails, I decided to take a look at it again, and though I was able to get an XMLHttpRequest to pull down some data from a URL, I wasn’t able to figure out how to actually prompt me for some info - like for a phone number. My thought was “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if I could take the same sort of Send To Phone bookmarklet I made for FireFox and put it down in the Quick Launch area next to the Start button?” But the lack of an input prompt got me stuck.
I quickly discovered that trying to use the XMLHTTPRequest object with a dynamic URL prompts the user every time, which is defnitely annoying. And, hey, if you didn’t know, I also discovered that Microsoft has a patent on the HTML Desktop app already.
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