Introduction

The HTML Rendering Library provides basic rendering functionality; that is, this API gives your application the ability to draw text and images in a window, as specified by HTML data. Note that this functionality does not include other features of HTML browsers, such as history tracking or plug-in support. The kinds of tasks you can perform with the HTML Rendering Library include

• formatting and updating the rendering area with such elements as borders, scroll bars, and size boxes in scroll bars
• setting such graphics and display options as screen depth and graphics ports
• working with events
• drawing pages from HTML data
• obtaining information about pages
• converting URL and file system specification data