ramblings on software engineering: building teams, shipping faster, & breaking less
Before moving ahead with the MSHTML hosting posts, I wanted to take a moment to talk about alternatives to WebBrowser. I am sure you are familiar with the Mozilla webbrowser. Started as an open source project by Netscape, Mozilla and its suite of companion projects are quite an achievement. One of the Mozilla projects is …
My last posts have dealt with using the WebBrowser component to display HTML pages inside your application. We have seen how it does not take much to embed the control to create your own little mini-webbrowser. In this post I want to go a little further than building a webbrowser. Lots of applications are using …
Hosting IE in your application is a relatively straight forward process, provided your development environment supports the use of ActiveX controls. Each language/framework has its own way of doing it: VB works directly with the WebBrowser control, MFC has its CHtmlView wrapper classes, Delphi has the TWebBrowser wrapper and C++Builder uses TCppWebBrowser. Create one of …
On the surface it seems like a great deal. You can actually embed MSHTML, the IE HTML rendering engine, in your own application. There is a lot of cool, simple features you get out-of-the-box. As soon as you get more advanced in your features, you find things are not so simple. First, lets clear up …
This is post is really for me more than anything else. I have been trying to find some information on what new features IE7 offers for those embedding the WebBrowser control. In the process, I also found some stuff that came out with IE6 during the WinXP SP2 timeframe. DOCHOSTUIFLAG: New flags for navigation and …
Recently, I’ve had several discussions with other developers about UI frameworks. One of the more interesting outcomes is my new desire to create desktop applications using traditionally web-based frameworks. I know it sounds weird, but after looking at the current UI framework landscape and factoring in the latest directions in rich Internet applications, it may …