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Jesus.... Visual Basic did this in the 80s and 90s just fine. Flash did it in the early 2000s.

It is doable, but it requires a stable runtime. Just the HTML/CSS ecosystem is too flaky, and HTML/CSSS is a poorly design system for this type of interactive systems/apps.

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I was gonna say, I did some of this with VB3, and VB6 definitely could do it all. CSS & HTML are ancient technology limping on with an entire industry of people who know its dark magic keeping it afloat.

It's not that HTML is flaky - it's explicitly designed to work in different types of portal, which Flash and VB were not. For example, Flash and VB are not known for their easy compatibility with screen readers for the blind.

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