Does anyone know of a tutorial or guide to help me create a web browser? Nothing fancy just something I can add my own stuff to.
Creating a webbrowser?
Does anyone know of a tutorial or guide to help me create a web browser? Nothing fancy just something I can add my own stuff to.
In C? I haven't heard of any libraries mixed with tutorials on this subject. This is considered an advanced subject, though.
Oh nm then. I am really new to C and I just wanted to mess around with it. Do you know if it is possible in Visual Basic? I know a bit of that but not too much either. I am just bored.
New? Web browser? Visual Basic???
I suggest you try something else - there's many things are far simpler than a web browser.
Try a small console game, for example.
Originally Posted by Adak
Whatever you want to do, start really slow. Make sure you can handle a language at the most basic level, and move forward. The important part of the simple exercises that seem pointless is to cement the concepts into you. Once that occurs, languages and platforms are almost irrelevant.
C is good as a console-only language. It can still do graphical applications, however, such libraries do not come with the language.
Actually creating a web browser does not involve so advanced topics - if you stick to a text based browser without security protocols support. Then the most tricky part is creation of the connection - which is not that tricky when we drop SSL. Rest of it is mostly text parsing. Usage of ncurses library also allows creation of 'lynx' like user interface to your browser.
But creation of fully featured web browser in C requires really deep knowledge... and massive amount of time.
Http programming, parser, dynamic rendering, GUI programming.
That's a few things I can think of. Nothing for a beginner.
Many newbies can't figure out how to declare main() properly let alone open a socket.
In that context, even a text browser is advanced.
