Michael,

>However, the omission of any mention of this mode of using VFP ActiveDocs makes me suspect that there may be some special restriction on the WebBrowser ActiveX control for the particular case of VFP ActiveDocs. Why does the documentation fail to mention this, when it seems to me like a far more interesting usage than that of launching a VFP app within an instance of Internet Explorer?

Why not solve the mystery by just trying it? Fire up a Web Browser control and navigate to:

http://www.west-wind.com/wconnect/wwhttpdemo.app

That is an ActiveDoc VFP7 application. If it runs, then Active Docs run in the Web Browser control, assuming you have VFP7 runtimes on your machine. (Note that there will be a pause while the 500K app downloads.)