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You can run just run whole Windows with IE6 in the browser these days thanks to WebAssembly: https://oldweb.today/?browser=ie6. It even works on my phone.

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That’s actually pretty interesting

I’m not very optimistic given how tightly this thing is coupled to Windows and ActiveX, but I might still give it a try just out of curiosity.

If you can make it run in a standard qemu/libvirt VM, you likely should be able to ship that VM in the browser as the site I linked demonstrates.

Only problem I see is, does it need custom hardware/drivers? If yes and you can make hardware passthrough work with qemu, perhaps you could host a VM instance on a server and ship some web UI or RDP client for users to connect to it.

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