What can WebBrowser support? – PB Docs 2022

• Supports browsing web page that contains JavaScript

• Supports accessing web page that requires basic or digest
  authentication

  The WebBrowser control will automatically display a login
  window for the user to enter the user name and password for
  authentication. If the authentication fails, this window will
  display again until the authentication is successful or the
  authentication operation is cancelled.

• Supports browsing HTML and HTML5 pages

• Supports browsing a PDF file online

• Supports browsing local files (including htm, gif, jpg, jpeg,
  png, swf, txt, c, cpp, pdf, etc.) and does not
  support browsing the Microsoft Office file including
  docx, xlsx etc. or any file that cannot be opened by Google
  Chrome.

• Supports browsing videos in most common non-proprietary
  formats. Proprietary formats such as MPEG-4 ASP, H.264, and H.265
  formats are not supported.

• Supports accessing microphone or camera on the device

• Supports playing flash (with the flash plug-in installed by
  the user)

• Supports browsing web pages that support multiple
  languages

• Supports printing web pages as PDFs and responding to the
  print events

• Supports the various HTTPS protocols

• Supports the right-mouse context menus

• Supports web page zoom in/out

• Supports responding to the error event from the server
  certificate

• Supports dynamically configuring the file download
  location

• Supports responding to the keyboard actions (such as
  F5)

• Does not support callback of the popup window

• Does not support cookie manipulation interface

• Does not support request irrelevant to the browser

• Does not support receiving focus when the user tabs among
  controls within a window

• Does not support searching within the web page

• Does not support drag & drop in the web page

• Does not support Google Developer tools

• Does not support loading the local file from different origins
  via file:/// (you will have to use http or https)

• Does not support Google authentication (because Google does
  not allow OAuth requests to Google via embedded browsers)

Note

For code examples of using the WebBrowser control in the
PowerBuilder application, refer to the Example Graph App included in the product or https://github.com/Appeon/PowerBuilder-Graph-Example.