Windows Store WebView Alternative

Question

I make extensive use of WebView in the project, but find that its flaws are showstopper for the project. Are there any alternatives that can display HTML in Windows storage applications?

Edit: on request, some of the problems we have with this control are:

• It does not have support for dependency properties, you need to call methods (workaround: wrap it in a user control or nested properties ...)
• It cannot display local html files (workaround with navigation binding)
• If your local html files contain additional files like css or js, you need more workarounds to get it working.
• This is IE10 handed down over your application, so that it covers other controls (again, you need this awful - sorry - webbrush workaround)
• Animation doesn't work well when you put in a Listview (it scrolls faster than other controls, it also stretches weirdly), there is no workaround
• Animation doesn’t work at all when installing an animated popup, there is no workaround
• This disrupts semantic scaling in portrait mode (besides the need for a webbrush workaround for it to work) for unknown reasons if you zoom in. It works in the landscape and in the portrait until you move anything, but not always move around the website at any time, and it breaks the scaling.

There are probably more problems that we had, these are the ones that made us consider this showstopper

Answer 1

We had the same problem, but it was resolved with a much more, rather than a “flaw," alternative to this XAML Toolkit for WinRT .

There is a WebBrowser that you must view.