Thursday, October 28, 2010

How can I make A VERY VERY advanced web browser WITHOUT VB 2005?

I know it will be complicated so if there is no good way...

A really advanced description of how to make a web browser in VB will be fine!How can I make A VERY VERY advanced web browser WITHOUT VB 2005?
Making an actual independent web browser is more work than you can imagine. Start with the ballpark figure of 500 000 lines of code for a browser, and figure that a professional programmer writes no more than 10 lines of code per hour (the actual numbers are probably closer to millions of LOC and 3 lines/hour). Even by our very generous estimates, you'll be spending most of a year writing this browser...continuously. You'll have to learn an insane amount of stuff about security, optimization, memory leaks (no, coding in VB probably isn't good enough, you'll probably be in C, C++, C# or Java), multithreading, drawing APIs, (X)HTML parsing (which is hard - HTML can be malformed), CSS, Javascript....it's essentially a small operating system at this point.



Your better bet is to just embed an IE control in your form. Yes, IE sucks, but as far as I know, Gecko / Webkit aren't available as web controls.

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