Web Application Client Module

[Chung Leong]

"Raffi" <thegrizzzly at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1113340287.265724.137300 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Hi All,
>
> I hope I'm posting this question to the correct newsgroups. We have a
> web based database application that's accessed using IE. The
> application opens a popup window to run in. With all the popup blockers
> and compromised browsers out there, I'm looking into developing a web
> based custom client side application to access the application with.
> The application will be developed to only reach the web application
> site using the https protocol. It also needs to javascript enabled. It
> will be downloaded from the main web site and used to access the
> database application.
>
> Any suggestions/ideas on how to go about developing the client
> application? What tools tools are out there for such a project.

It's easy. Just create an application that hosts the MSHTML ActiveX control
(IE itself minus the interface). With tools like Delphi or Visual Basic,
it's literally a matter of dragging and dropping the control into the form.
Even in Visual C++ it's not that hard.

Forcing Javascript to be on is somewhat more tricky. There are a couple COM
interfaces that you to implement.

I suggest you google "MSHTML hosting" for more info. The newsgroup
microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming.mshtml_hosting is also an excellent
resource.