[nzlug] Infoscreen

[Hadley Rich]

On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:12:53 Jim Cheetham wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, the good thing about the full screen mode in Opera is that it really is 
full screen. No toolbars or anything. I've used it for a frontend for an 
asset management application recently.

> And DHTML is called AJAX now :-)

What if it isn't Asynchronous and doesn't have anything to do with XML ? :)

hads

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