How to program web-browser?

[kai2005]

Hi all,
I want try to write a web-browser, like IE or firefox. But how?
Can someone speak something about this?
I can C/C++ and java.

 

[cpjust]

Do you know how to create Windows GUI programs using various controls like buttons, menus...? If not, that's something you should learn first.

You could make use of various .NET or MFC classes to greatly simplify the process of doing the network I/O and displaying the info to the window...

 

[kai2005]

hello cpjust,

I have windowsprogramming experience with pure win-api, without using MFC, because I don't like MFC. And I can also Java-GUI programming with using Java Swing. But I still do not know how to begin to program web-browser.

I think a web browser should be cross-platteform, like firefox.

 

[Salem]

In decreasing order of complexity....

Since firefox is open source, why don't you just download it and have a look?

Or something simpler, like lynx, which is a text-only browser, again with source code.

Or maybe curl, which is a page grabber.

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[adrstan1]

Do you really want to program a web browser, or just want to provide internet browsing capabilities to your application ? If the second is true, since you have specified you want your code to be cross-platform, look at wxMozilla:

http://wxmozilla.sourceforge.net/downloads/

which embeds the Mozilla web browser into wxWidgets applications