Re: Windowless WebBrowser control?

From: Gambini (buiv1_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/25/04 

Date: 25 Jun 2004 09:19:53 -0700

> If you don't require the rendering services of the WebBrowser control, you
> may not need the control at all. The DOM is accessible with a reference to
> the mshtml library, so depending on you language and environment you could
> just include a reference to that. Then you can create in-memory html
> documents, which you can manipulate, add elements to, set element attributes
> and use for parsing html.

  Hi Charles, thanks for responding.

  I've used just the MSHTML parser before and the DOM returned isn't
the same as one available from a BHO for instance. For example, using
the MSHTML parser, I cannot access the correct "bgcolor" attribute for
the BODY tag. Also, I cannot get a DOM back from a webpage that is
XML + XSLT using just the MSHTML parser. The WebBrowser object cures
all of these deficiencies of using only the MSHTML parser. Yet, I
don't need the UI at all.

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