new to these forums, as best i could tell this is the place to post this issue i am having

my application is using the WebBrowser control in VB.Net to display a local HTM file - this file uses Javascript to create the ToC (its an HTML Help file created with MadCap for our application)

the issue is this: on Vista machines, Javascript is being "blocked" by IE, thus the ToC is never built and thus nothing is displayed within the WebBrowser control. we have gone through security settings within IE (i believe it is an issue in both IE7 and IE8, but cannot confirm) and nothing we changed there made any difference.

no error is thrown, it loads the HTM file. but the javascript is blocked and thus the actual contents are never loaded.

when we use IE7 to navigate to that file it does not display properly either; i used Firefox (i have the NoScript add-on) and when i allowed the script to run, it displayed fine.

does anyone know which IE settings will allow a local HTM file to execute Javascript? the WebBrowser control does not have any security settings that i could find.


side note: also an issue with VB6 that uses the IEFrame.dll - which makes sense, because its basically just using the client's version of IE.


thanks, and sorry if this the wrong forum for this.