[nzlug] Infoscreen

[Jim Cheetham]

On 08/03/07, Hadley Rich <nzlug at nice.net.nz> wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:02:25 Jim Cheetham wrote:
> > For more advanced stuff, let each machine startup X with no desktop,
> > and a kiosk-mode web browser, pointing at a unique URL on the server.
>
> Yeah, I'd do it with Opera (nice full screen mode) from xinit and DHTML (or
> whatever it's called today) served up to it.

Done Opera in kiosk mode in the past (back when you had to have a
license key; but it was for a charity so they donated one very quickly
over email) in just that configuration; worked like a charm.

Firefox' kiosk mode at the time wasn't good enough, but it has
possibly improved since then. However the main objections were related
to letting people click away on the screen, which isn't an issue here
I guess.

And DHTML is called AJAX now :-)

-jim