[nxobject]

I know a lot of servers exploited that as well to play music in the background... in retrospect, the idea of a web view hanging around while you're in a game is terrifying.

[IYasha]

Yes! And all of that just to parse some <font> and <img> tags? :D

Also, to be fair: it was VGUI2, which, AFAIK, was introduced with Steam UI and still used in HL2. And was never made available to modders of GS.