Getox Posted October 5, 2004 Posted October 5, 2004 is there any way to make your own webbrowser instead of using the one in .net? Quote Page Edit 2.0 Alpha 2 OUT NOW! - Download Now -
Shazbots Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 yes tens of thousands of lines of code later..... or use mozilla(firefox)? how many times can u say "of" in a sentence :confused: Quote
Getox Posted October 6, 2004 Author Posted October 6, 2004 im trying to make my own browser, can anyone point me to a tutorial site for this kinda stuff? Quote Page Edit 2.0 Alpha 2 OUT NOW! - Download Now -
Administrators PlausiblyDamp Posted October 6, 2004 Administrators Posted October 6, 2004 I'm not aware of any tutorials on creating a browser there are a few open source ones out there - Mozilla or Amaya are two that spring to mind. However these are written in C/C++ rather than .Net. Creating a browser from scratch is not a trivial task though, as well as simple HTML parsing and rendering you will also need to conform to several RFC, implement client side scripting, support several 'flavours' of HTML and DHTML, deal with image display (in several formats), possibly Java / Flash (or a general plugin format) support and CSS handling. This is not an exhaustive list but just the features that are expected of a modern browser. Is there a particular reason you need to create a web browser or is this more of a learning exercise? If a learning exercise then you could probably trim the feature set back a bit to simplify the learning experience. Quote Posting Guidelines FAQ Post Formatting Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. -- Albert Einstein
Getox Posted October 6, 2004 Author Posted October 6, 2004 its just a project i set for myself.. but looks like i cant make it the default browser cos of the "Microsoft Browser" part it opens up IE.. Quote Page Edit 2.0 Alpha 2 OUT NOW! - Download Now -
MoPraL Posted November 3, 2004 Posted November 3, 2004 You can and it's better, make your navigator BASED ON the WebBrowser Component (which uses IE6). It's faster but the user must have IE6 installed in it computer! Good Luck for coding your HTML Engine :P Quote
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