Creating a kiosk environment.
The tools:
The requierments:
- Firefox 3
- Linux
- Non-exit-able
- Onscreen Keyboard
As you might expect, I tried everything.
R-Kiosk. Perfect.
A inline javascript Keyboard. While it did what was needed, it fails on forms that are on the bottom of the screen and in Iframes. Good side: Language was dependant on the page’s language. But Fail.
xvkbd. While I did manage to place it on top of Firefox and lock it so people cant close or edit it, and change their language.. it was annoying to do so. Moving it around the screen more so. Porting it to win32 impossible. Fail.
Ok, lets try a different aproach.
http://stlouis-shopper.com/~jtjsoftware/software/vkeyboard.xpi is a firefox Addon I found. A simple tweak made it work on Fx3. Here is what I made. The first step in porting the app, is thus in bad shape. ~Win.
If there is enough interest in such a plugin for Fx3, I myself and the original author will continue to work on it. A lot of things are already on my mind that I want to do with this project. Suggestions ?
New day, new toy.
All the time lodging around my Dell Inspiron got to me today as I went and bought a Medion E1210 SubNoteBook ( NetBook )
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Today I received 2 emails from a site I never heard from before, entitled Joomlaaa.com. Seems like a spoof eh ?
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was released on August 27, 2001, shortly after Windows XP was finished. Now, 8 years later, both are outdated but still used by a multitude of users. That of course is little concern to the average joe, but it makes web developers everywhere want to kick the bucket sad.
But uncle Google is finally taking a firm stand against the evil overlord with taking IE6 out of the list of supported browsers for Gmail and showing users of the mentioned browser messages to upgrade to ither Chrome or Firefox. That same message was shown weeks ago to IE7 users, but later removed.
Here is hoping the browser wars will get interesting again. The standard is ready to boom out of proportion with more and more features being added by different engines regulary. But will the users follow, or stay with their captive untill they are finally left out in the dry ?
