Our MFC application makes extensive use of the CWebBrowser2 interface. We CoCreate the web browser control and use it to navigate to various pages.
What is the connection between the web browser control and IE itself? IE delivers the control, right? How often is the control updated? In particular we are seeing that the latest IE when installed on our machines supports (at least some) HTML 5. However when we load the same HTML 5 based pages in a window in our app that uses the web browser control, they don't render the same. Apparently some HTML 5 supported by IE is not supported by the control (I am told gradients are not being rendered). Is this something that can be turned on programatically? Or will there be an updated browser control that supports HTML 5? We are especially interested in a video element so we can elimiate with extrememe prejudice the video player we have to download to user machines.
R.D. Holland