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Web Browser Control Winforms

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20 Jan 2011CPOL 0  
The web browser control lets you embed IE in your application, so until IE provides support for the HTML5 features you wnat to visualize, you will be unable to use the WebBrowser control for this purpose. If you install IE 9[^] you might get what you want. You'll just have to try and see...

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20 Jan 2011Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
To best of my (limited) knowledge there is no way, unfortunately.Just wait until situation gets better and keep suffering from all that compatibility issues. :(( Publications say there is a Google plug-in to support HTML5, by how would you enforce it use?I'm not sure about IE9. You...
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20 Jan 2011Manfred Rudolf Bihy
I'm not to sure about the innards of the web browswer control, but if you have IE9 installed I thought that would also change the HTML5 capabilities of said control. After all isn't the webrowser control just some .NET wrapper to the underlying IE that is already on the system?What IE...
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20 Jan 2011programmervb.netc++ 6 alternatives  
I am wondering if there is a way to make the web browser control in .net win forms display html5 correctly?I am wanting to preview some code generated html5 with in a win forms app.Thanks,
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20 Jan 2011programmervb.netc++
Thank you all I did not realize that the web browser control just emulated IE.I have IE9 beta installed already and I had not tested viewing the page in IE9 I had been viewing it in Firefox.It does not display correctly in IE9.It does in Firefox.Thank all of you for your responses.
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20 Jan 2011programmervb.netc++
I actually found a work around...For some reason the white space matters in the html that is being rendered and for whatever reason it works in ff and not IE9.For example this will not worktabstave notes 1/2but this willtabstave notes 1/2
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28 Jan 2011programmervb.netc++
To answer my own question I used Webkit which is a firefox engine and it worked great didn't even have to change a line of code.

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