The invention provides a method for rendering dynamic web contents with static file based graphical user interface (GUI) form control The method includes the steps of trapping an event which requires to draw or redraw an image in a file based GUI image control in a current local environment; initiating a WebCrawler function with parameters derived from the current local environment to retrieve data from the web; generating a locally accessible file with web content in a format interpretable by the file based GUI image control; and having the file based GUI image control render the web content contained in the locally accessible file.