First brought to my attention by a comment from Darvin Martin, there appears to be another major limitation with the Modern Web Browser control.
It would seem that you cannot mix content sources. Let me explain …
Even though the Microsoft Access Modern Web Browser control made its appearance back in May, it has taken Microsoft 3 months to make any form of an official announcement, show any form of pride in their own work!
As they say:
So here’s their official blog/release notification:
Recently, on my YouTube channel, @user-do9yi7gs4u asked when the (Microsoft Access) Modern Web Browser control would be available for Enterprise users.
So, several days ago I put the question to the Access Dev Team. I just heard back and here is the planned release cycle breakdown:
For any of you trying to get a grasp of the new Modern Web Browser control, beyond my set of articles on the subject found here, I have also started to release a YouTube series of videos. Below is a direct link to the Modern Web Browser playlist:
Over the years, I have seen countless posts regarding images in reports rendering very pixelate images even though the image itself was of decent quality & displayed and printed fine in other applications.
Access seems to always render default bmp, wmf or ico formats, but outside of those things can get dicey at times.
Some have said this issue became more of an issue when Office 2007 came out. I can neither confirm nor deny this claim.
Now there are plenty of suggestions out there, and there were some fixes put out over the years (images not rendering at all, …), but today I thought I’d offer up another potential workaround.
I recently published one of my YouTube “Quick Tip” videos on how we can easily highlight the active control using conditional formatting, so no code required!
I quickly received a comment about wanting to emulate what is done is Web Apps, that is to change the border rather than the background itself. So I thought I’d explore that briefly.
Oh you knew I would, admit it!
One of my biggest issues with the new Modern Web Browser control is this whole ‘Trusted Domains’ nonsense. It makes no sense to me to stop users from using a Web Browser to click on links to access other sites?! Isn’t that the whole point of a web browser, to browse, hence the name?! Instead of calling it a Web Browser control, it should have been called a Web Page Viewer control because now you aren’t supposed to use it to browse anything!
If you don’t know anything about the new browser or its limitations then check out:
So I have been trying to find some way to get around this limitation and, well, today I finally did.
So you’ve seen that recently I’ve been playing around with the new Modern ‘Edge’/’WebView2’ Web Browser control that recently got added to Access MS365.
and several more.
And, in my previous post, I demonstrated how easy it was to save a base64 html image:
well today, I’m going to implement that base64 code so we can fully automate the PC’s webcam without the need of any 3rd party tools, APIs, … Easy as can be!
As promised in my previous post regarding merging PDFs together using the new Access Modern Web Browser control:
This post is about splitting/extracting a set of pages from a PDF.
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Have you ever wanted to merge PDFs using VBA and not wanted to use ActiveX controls, 3rd party dlls, …
Now that we have a new Modern Web Browser control:
we can finally do what has been so easy to do via the web for over a decade now! That’s right, we can employ the web browser to enable us to create and manipulate PDFs!
