Apollo Browser in five lines of code

In yesterday's post about what Apollo is, a comment appeared to challenge the notion of being able to implement a simple browser in 5 lines of code. Rather than rebuke it on the comments list, I decided to make this post and place the code here to show how easy it is. This is as simple as it gets, no back buttons, SSL, bookmarks etc, but it is a browser that you can type a URL into and it will navigate to the URL and display the HTML properly formatted.

The sample Apollo MXML code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!--line one. I am not goign to count the XML PI-->
<mx:ApolloApplication mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="vertical" cornerRadius="12">

<!-- line two -->
<mx:Text text="Enter URL and hit enter" fontFamily="Arial" fontSize="16" fontWeight="bold" />

<!-- line three-->
<mx:TextInput id="urlTxt" width="100%" enter="html.location=urlTxt.text;" text="http://www.adobe.com" />

<!--line four -->
<mx:HTML id="html" width="100%" height="100%" location="http://www.adobe.com">

<!--line five. Not really a line of code, just closing the root tag -->
</mx:HTML>

</mx:ApolloApplication>


Here is the screenshot of the Apollo browser application: