WebBrowser depends on IE?

[daveofgv]

Just a quick question.....

Does a web browser made in vb.net (2008 Pro) have to depend on Internet Explorer?

If I took off IE from my computer will my web browser be missing any files that are needed to run it or is it kinda like firefox that is not depended on IE?

Thanks in advanced

daveofgv

 

[jmcilhinney]

The WebBrowser control uses the IE engine. There is also an ActiveX control out there that uses the Firefox engine, so you can use that instead if you want.

 

[daveofgv]

Thank you for your response. So I guess that VB.NET does depend on another browser.....

If I took off IE or Firefox then my browser will not work. Correct?

If I were to build a stand alone web browser I would probably have to use C++ instead of VB.NET or even C#?

Thanks for your response

 

[jmcilhinney]

If you want a web browser that doesn't depend on any existing browser engine then you'd have to write your own browser engine. That's simply not practical. If you don't have IE under the hood then how do you think that the HTML code will get rendered? That's IE that does that. Take that away and you have to write your own engine to parse the HTML code and render the output. That's just HTML too. What about JavaScript, CSS, etc., etc.?