wxHTML for Beginners
By Abhijit Belapurkar2004-10-30
Building Basic Browser Functionality with wxPython
Typically, most applications solve most browser problems by keeping HTML simple -- writing, as it were, to the lowest common denominator. Even in this case, however, problems with fonts and layout still persist, as well as the pain of testing of your application when new browsers are released and existing browsers are upgraded. The alternative -- supporting only one browser -- isn't usually a user-friendly solution.
The obvious solution is to embed your own HTML-rendering widget in your application. Of course, writing such a widget from scratch is a large job, so it seems logical to turn to a pre-packaged solution.
There are a number of choices in the commercial world, as well as a few open source packages (see Resources later in this article). This article will show you how to use the wxHtml widget distributed as part of the wxWindows package, with Python as the language of choice for the bindings (C++, Perl, and other languages are supported as well).
This article assumes a basic knowledge of wxPython, although experienced Python developers with no wxPython experience should be able to hit the ground running. In this article we will create a standalone browser application, while keeping the architecture simple enough that it would be a simple task to migrate the browser functionality into an existing application.
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First published by IBM DeveloperWorks
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