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HtmlViewer Components History

BerndGabriel edited this page Sep 23, 2016 · 6 revisions

HTML Viewer Components for Delphi, Lazarus and C++Builder

The HtmlViewer component set consists of the THtmlViewer, TFrameViewer, and TFrameBrowser components. All three are HTML document display components:

THtmlViewer

  • The basic component.
  • THtmlViewer displays single (non-frame) documents.
  • It also forms the basis for the other two components.

TFrameViewer

  • Displays both frame and single HTML documents.
  • TFrameViewer is oriented more for local file system use.

TFrameBrowser

  • Also displays frame and single HTML documents.
  • TFrameBrower is oriented for use with local file systems and toward Internet style protocols and URL usage.
  • Additional code and/or components are generally required to get data from other sources than the local file system.

These components support most of the HTML 3.2 specifications with many additional popular HTML 4 and 5 enhancements. Many Cascading Style Sheet properties are also supported.

For a detailed list and demonstration of features start "FrameDem.exe".

Latest Version: HtmlViewer 11.7 (released: 2016-09-20)

New Features And Enhancements

  • Delphi 10 Support
  • C++Builder 10 Support
  • Lazarus 1.6 Support (Windows, Linux)
  • Lazarus 0.9.30 Support (Raspbian)
  • div. bugfixes

For details download HtmlViewer117.7z (3.6MB) or HtmlViewer116.zip (8.3MB), start "FrameDem.exe", and click "What's new" or see WhatsNew.html.

Open Source Version History

Date Released Version Branch (Including Fixes)
2016-09-20 11.7 HtmlViewer-11.7
2015-06-30 11.6 HtmlViewer-11.6
2014-06-30 11.5 HtmlViewer-11.5
2013-06-30 11.4 HtmlViewer-11.4
2012-07-01 11.3
2012-02-29 11.2
2011-12-16 11.1
2011-11-29 11.0
2011-11-29 10.2

Project History

The well-known HTMLViewer components previously sold by PBear.com are in the public domain since 2008!

To ensure that these components stay usable for a long time to come, we (the HTMLViewer project team) are maintaining it's codebase since then.

Date Event
2015-06-30 This project replaced the Google Code hosted THTMLViewer project, as Google Code has gone down.
2009-07-10 The Google Code hosted THTMLViewer project replaced the SF hosted HTMLViewer project, which since then hosts the releases only.
2008 HTMLViewer components previously sold by PBear.com go to the SourceForge hosted HTMLViewer project

We'd like to thank the original author of the HTMLViewer components, David Baldwin, for all his hard work and his generous donation of this code to the public domain!