The Iframe implementation of a navigation failed to work out as planned so a complete rethink of this plugin was in order.
What it does now is let you go
wherever you want, BUT if you go away from the homepage you will get a 5 min limit for inactivity as opposed to 30 min on the homepage. Going completely outside the scope of the homepage will get you only 3 min.
So this turned out to be a remake of the Auto Restart
Firefox plugin I saw long ago but was totally outdated.
But you get a nifty, touchscreen
friendly navigation. Works best with R-Kiosk and FxKeyboard 
Also, a note:
firefox in standards mode: body is document.documentElement
firefox in quircks mode : body is document.body
… doh
Edit 2009/6/7 : This project is currently not public. If you would like a copy please email me (find email in footer).
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 ?
JoomKey is a joomla native mootools js virtual keyboard. It can be used on html inputs and textareas.
The language is based on the language of the currently viewed site/article. It comes with English, German and Slovenian keyboard but can be easily be fitted with any additional language. If you do create a language please send it to me so i can add it.
Download Module JoomKey 0.1.0
Tested on Firefox 3. Made in scope of the Institut-Oko Kiosk project.
(C) Marko Zabreznik
The Away3d team are pleased to announce the release of the 2.0.0 update to the Away3d engine!
You can download the update from the trunk in the svn repository:
http://away3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk
or go to the downloads section of away3d.com where a new zip file is available:
http://www.away3d.com/downloads
Highlights of the update (posted on the site together with a new demo):
- Simulated phong shading (with blinn-phong specular highlights)
- Environment-mapped materials
- Normal-mapped materials (an open source first for Flash)
- Z-depth filter for large outdoor scenes
- Fog filter
- Straight-to-bitmap rendering for fast scaled views
- Surface caching for fast rendered lights
- Package refactor for easier learning of basic classes
Working on the same principle as the last mjpg_stream implemenation, here it is: a portace plugin !
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