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Re: Warning to all CPPWebBrowser Developers

#272
From: Enrique
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:44
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You are right, CppWebBrowser is like an infinite headache. In Delphi there 
is a free component that helps a lot (EmbeddedWebBrowser), but still being 
IE...
I don't know why Borland doesn't develop a good wrapper for Mozilla or 
something similar to EmbeddedWebBrowser at least...
Even more... I don't know why any developer did it.

"Eduardo Jauch" <eduardo.jauch@gmail.com> escribi๏ฟฝ en el mensaje 
news:45cb5016@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Mark Jacobs escreveu:
>> Before you pour your life's work into a CPPWebBrowser-based application, 
>> please bear in mind that it is just a wrapper for IE7, and, as such, is 
>> bound to the limitations of IE's architecture. This may not seem a 
>> problem, until you push the Javascript engine beyond its limits, which is 
>> surprisingly easy to do.
>>
>> A case in point is my Hangman page at http://jacobsm.com/hangman.htm 
>> (about 2.5 MB in size). It uses words from a special dictionary file I 
>> pieced together with over 108,500 words. The sheer size of the words 
>> array created when the page loads under IE7, causes a stupid message 
>> about the awds array not existing, despite having just been declared. 
>> Loading the same page under Opera 9.10 works exactly how it should, with 
>> no errors, and a great game of Hangman going!
>>
>> To sum up, IE7 is significantly inferior to Opera 9.10 in certain areas, 
>> so any CPPWebBrowser-based application based on it, will also be inferior 
>> in those same areas.
>>
>>
>
> There are some other component, similar to cppwebbrowser, but that uses 
> instead the firefox, or opera, or any other?
>
> I have an apllication that uses cppwb and man... Some times I think that 
> killing myself would prevent all ths pain...
>
> rsrsrsrsrsr 
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