- Capabilities of the HTML renderer will depend upon the backed.
-
- @c wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE uses the the Trident rendering engine, which
- is also used by Internet Explorer. It is important to note that by default
- it emulates Internet Explorer 7, this can be chaged with a registry
- setting, see
+ It is designed to allow the creation of multiple backends for each port,
+ although currently just one is available. It differs from wxHtmlWindow in
+ that each backend is actually a full rendering engine, Trident on MSW and
+ Webkit on OSX and GTK. This allows the correct viewing complex pages with
+ javascript and css.
+
+ @section descriptions Backend Descriptions
+
+ @par wxWEB_VIEW_BACKEND_IE (MSW)
+
+ The IE backend uses Microsoft's Trident rendering engine, specifically the
+ version used by the locally installed copy of Internet Explorer. As such it
+ is only available for the MSW port. By default recent versions of the
+ <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa752085%28v=VS.85%29.aspx">WebBrowser</a>
+ control, which this backend uses, emulate Internet Explorer 7. This can be
+ changed with a registry setting, see