[mikestorrent]

30 years later and the basic functionalities of Windows 3.1's File Manager and Word 6.0's object linking and embedding still aren't doable on the web.

[smackeyacky]

Did anyone usefully use OLE outside of tech demos? I have never come across it in the wild.

[somat]

I mean, you are right, but....

It's the web, it's not supposed to get local files it gets web files and we don't ole for a reason. microsoft tried that with IE(activeX) and found out the hard way. but despite that it does a pretty good job linking and embedding javascript. to the point that they had to invent the whole CORS lunacy just to slow it down.