[.exe] Web Browser

[taekwondokid42]

For a school project, I am thinking about building a web browser, such as Mozilla, or IE7.


I have no idea where to start, or even what language to use.


If someone could tell me what language to use and/or point me to somewhere I could get a tutorial in the language that would be great.


I would have 1& 1/2 years to finish this project (It's a 3 semester course) and I would have very little help from my teachers. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Hazirak]

I haven't done a whole lot of playing around with it myself, but I would figure you could at least get some kind of start in Visual Basic. It actually has a browser object in it that will display web pages... but you'll still have to come up with all the other features, right down to the text box that URLs are typed into.

However, it's worth keeping in mind that any browser built this way will run on Internet Explorer's engine. In other words, if you're looking to truly start from scratch (or just have something against Internet Exploder), then feel free to completely disregard this post.

 

[Loneua Technologies]

I would start with visual basic,

Maybe Visual C+ if you are proficient.

Also you could try java.

 

[noerrorsfound]

Maybe Visual C+ if you are proficient.

Visual C++ is an IDE. The programming language is simply called C++.

 

[taekwondokid42]

Thanks. Do any of these programs need to be downloaded to use, and/or do any of them cost money?

 

[Patrick]

Yes, Visual Basic and Visual C++ both cost money.

I would suggest Visual C++ if you are going to write your own engine, else use Visual Basic - however I believe it is in the hundreds of dollars for the software.

 

[Hazirak]

I'm pretty sure the whole of Visual Studio Express is a free download. If it isn't, then you can still get the whole Visual Studio for free if you're a college student.

 

[Jose Magsino]

There are free C++ IDE if you want. Here is one of them. But of course the MS Visual studio IDE is quite different since it has a feature that helps the developer to drag and drop the various controls for your software being developed.

If you dont want to spend more time creating a software like that from scratch, you might be interested on modifying the firefox source code.

Just my suggestion though

 

[pgames]

If you dont want to spend more time creating a software like that from scratch, you might be interested on modifying the firefox source code.

Or even better, modify the Seamonkey (the New version of the first Mozilla) Source code. Not a lot of ppl know about Sea Monkey and also, it has an awesome built in HTML editor that firefox, unfortunately, doesn't have.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

 

[taekwondokid42]

Because this is a school project, I believe that my teacher would want me to start completely from scratch.

I will still use the Firefox and seamonkey source codes to give myself a basic idea of how things work.

Hazarak, unfortunately, I am in high school, and so I can't accept the free stuff.



edit: everyone who has been helpful has received reputation.

 

[marcossoft]

Have a look at this tutorial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH0r6FsS5zY
I made it to show how to use the webbrowser component that comes with VB. It's hard to write a program like that from scratch for you must first master html. I hope the tutorial is helpful.