Topic: HTML Opens in Internet Explorer, not Edge

[KKirk]

I'm working on a Dialog that will show a webpage, but when the dialog navigates to the URL it comes up as a page prompting me to upgrade my browser to Edge (It's a sharepoint page which apparently won't display on Explorer). Is there a way to have the HTML box display as an Edge browser and not Explorer?

[Lonnie]

I think all you'll have to do is change your default application for opening that type of file.
Open the Start menu type for Default apps
Find the app you want to launch things in then add the extension type to the list.

[KKirk]

Edge is set as my default browser, I don't think that's the issue. I don't even have explorer on my PC. Tried changing the default to chrome to see if that changed anything, no luck there.

[It's Alive!]

ask Owen to add acedShowHTMLModalWindow and acedShowHTMLModelessWindow
it's AutoCAD only though, uses autocad's internal chrome

[MickD]

I'm working on a Dialog that will show a webpage, but when the dialog navigates to the URL it comes up as a page prompting me to upgrade my browser to Edge (It's a sharepoint page which apparently won't display on Explorer). Is there a way to have the HTML box display as an Edge browser and not Explorer?

What web view control are you using? If you're using the old WebBrowser control you may get these issues as the html engine is pretty old. The most up to date control is WebView2, it takes a bit more to set up but works well and is based on the Edge engine so that should work.

[DW]

You could try setting an Internet Explorer registry entry to specify the MSIE User-Agent. Not sure if this will clear up issues on a sharepoint page but prevents a lot of script errors which would otherwise pop up.

By default it's not set when AutoCAD is installed (but is for BricsCAD).

The key can be checked and set with the following code:
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(if (not (vl-registry-read "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\FeatureControl\\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION" (strcat (getvar "program") ".exe")))
      (vl-registry-write "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\FeatureControl\\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION" (strcat (getvar "program") ".exe") 11001)
  )

Where the 11001 DWord value will force IE11 emulation instead of an older IE emulation.

More info here: https://www.devhut.net/webbrowser-activex-control-google-maps-invalid-character-scripting-error/