Hosting a Page from the Internet with the WebView Control

You declare a WebView control in a page in a different way than the other standard WinJS controls. Instead of using a data-win-control attribute, you declare a WebView control like this:

   <x-ms-webview src="http://superexpertTraining.com"       width="800" height="500"></x-ms-webview>

This WebView control displays the home page from SuperexpertTraining.com in the Windows Store app (see Figure 4.24). Furthermore, the control displays the external content in an 800px by 500px area.

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FIGURE 4.24 Displaying a web page with the WebView control

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