caption: HTA Hack
color: #F06292
created: 20131212223146250
delivery: DIY
description: Manual method to let Internet Explorer save changes directly
method: save
modified: 20200507110355115
tags: Saving Windows
title: Windows HTA Hack
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki

Under Windows it is possible to convert TiddlyWiki into a true local application by renaming the HTML file to have the extension `*.hta`. The ''fsosaver'' module can then use the ~ActiveX ~FileSystemObject to save changes.

Note that one disadvantage of this approach is that the TiddlyWiki file is saved in UTF-16 format, making it up to twice as large as it would be with the usual UTF-8 encoding. However, opening and saving the file via another saving method will re-encode the file to UTF-8.

See Wikipedia for more details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application
