Methods, software and devices, for use in a network environment having a server and a terminal with a web browser running on it, where the browser is remote from the server, are disclosed. In such a method, the server provides a first web page to the web browser on the remote terminal. The server receives the text from the web browser at the remote terminal, and the server executes the text. The server provides or updates a second web page to the remote terminal that includes real time results generated by the execution of the text such that the executable file represented by the text seems to a user of the web browser to have been executed at the remote terminal.