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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1997
Jeremy D Stone, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael G Sheldon, Seattle, WA (US);
Kurt J Eckhardt, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, MA (US);
Abstract
A web browser control allows application program developers to incorporate web browser functionality into application programs. The web browser control exposes web browsing functionality to application programs through an application program interface. This interface comprises member functions, events and properties. The member functions provide high level services such as Navigate to a URL, go forward or backward in a navigation stack, or refresh the display of an HTML page. The events are notification messages that the control sends to a host application to notify the application about actions that have taken place or are about to take place. The properties provide status information about an instance of a control. A host application can create several instances of the web browser control and communicate with them through the interface on each instance.