Something as simple as this:http://codereview.chromium.org/244003
<http://codereview.chromium.org/244003>Not necessarily clean, but this thread is whether we would want to implement Kiosk mode in Chromium. That will help many companies to use Chromium as their solution for hosting their web products. -Mohamed On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:47 AM, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote: > What are the major issues?Full screen with no escape hatch and no status > bubble? > Chrome developers already said the are willing to take care of those\accept > patches for those. > The rest are taken care of with disabling keyboard shortcuts, or am I > wrong? > > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 15:44, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > >> The minor issues, yes, the major issues, no. >> -Mohamed >> >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 8:40 AM, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> You can create a content script that will disable the shortcut keys of >>> the browser and the right clicks, on all of the pages.About browsing to >>> other pages (and so, downloading), you can apply a rule within a content >>> script to always navigate to the home page of what you need, when going to >>> any other URL. >>> That would solve most of the issues you have in that list. >>> >>> ☆PhistucK >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 15:30, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I tried ChromeFrame it is very good, but it doesn't work if the Kiosk >>>> Mode flag is set. If the Kiosk mode is set ( iexplorer.exe -k >>>> http://www.google.com ) it renders it as IE Renderer. It renders it >>>> fine in a Chrome Frame if its not in Kiosk mode. That must be a bug :) >>>> For IE, kiosk mode has a context menu, but people usually apply the >>>> registry tweak to remove context menu from IE if they need to. >>>> >>>> For Chromium, it would be nice if stuff like this would be an extension, >>>> an extension should allow us to show/hide various parts of the UI. In the >>>> meantime, I quickly compiled a custom Chromium so that my CEO and VP could >>>> see the benefits of using Chrome instead of IE on some of our web products. >>>> >>>> Stuff that would be cool and would be very lightweight to include for >>>> kiosk mode would be: >>>> - No Status Bar- Full Screen (with no exit, only alt+f4 should work) >>>> - No Context Menus (should be an option) >>>> - Disable downloading of files. >>>> - No tabs >>>> - No opening files >>>> - many more >>>> >>>> I would rather that be an extension (but there are currently no way to >>>> actually block users to remove extensions, maybe blocking users entering a >>>> url would suffice) but not possible currently. >>>> >>>> -Mohamed >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:52 AM, Amit Joshi <a...@chromium.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Chrome Frame is a good option, but you'd still need a way to turn off >>>>>> some features. For example, a kiosk probably doesn't want to have a >>>>>> context >>>>>> menu. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Chrome Frame can/will offer control over the context menu. This is >>>>> exactly the kind of customization Chrome Frame can offer. Too bad we don't >>>>> have Linux, Mac versions yet, but we are open source now so patches >>>>> welcome >>>>> :) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> -Darin >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Amit Joshi <a...@chromium.org>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I think you should really consider embedding chrome frame ActiveX in >>>>>>> your own simple shell. That will not only enable the application to be >>>>>>> started with desired real estate and get rid of status bubble but allow >>>>>>> you >>>>>>> to customize it further if needed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Darin Fisher >>>>>>> <da...@chromium.org>wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org >>>>>>>> > wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> At work today, I talked to the CEO of my company to ship Chrome >>>>>>>>> browser with all our Kiosk's and recommended Chrome to be our default >>>>>>>>> browser for our web products. I bench marked our current web >>>>>>>>> applications >>>>>>>>> with Chrome (ToT) vs IE 7, and our applications run at average 10 >>>>>>>>> times >>>>>>>>> faster. (For windows, Mac speed differed) >>>>>>>>> There are some stuff that he didn't like: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> 1. Status Bubble: for a cashiering application, it keeps >>>>>>>>> popping up every second since buttons are all over the place. It >>>>>>>>> was >>>>>>>>> distracting him from the main product. >>>>>>>>> 2. Full screen mode "always" => Kiosk Mode. He wants the web >>>>>>>>> app to stay full screen, in IE, there is kiosk mode command line >>>>>>>>> switch. In >>>>>>>>> FF there is a plugin. >>>>>>>>> 3. JavaScript errors kept appearing intermittently (on the >>>>>>>>> Mac), would work on initial deploy but require a "Clear browsing >>>>>>>>> data" on >>>>>>>>> subsequent runs. Works great on windows (chrome). I guess we would >>>>>>>>> be using >>>>>>>>> linux/windows for kiosk anyhow. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Will there be plans for us to introduce Kiosk Mode in Chrome? It >>>>>>>>> seems the current audience is just targeted towards home users and >>>>>>>>> there is >>>>>>>>> no way to use Google Chrome for other usages. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Sure we could compile our own Chromium version, but many people >>>>>>>>> (Chrome forums and elsewhere) would like to use Chrome commercially. >>>>>>>>> In the >>>>>>>>> meantime, I am going to compile a version with no status bar, but I >>>>>>>>> believe >>>>>>>>> it would be nice to include it in future versions. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Maybe we could allow extensions to control (hide/show) different >>>>>>>>> areas in chrome. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe I'm in the minority, but it doesn't sound that unreasonable to >>>>>>>> support command line options for disabling the status bubble and >>>>>>>> starting in >>>>>>>> full screen mode. We could lump these together into a --kiosk-mode >>>>>>>> command >>>>>>>> line flag. This seems like something that could be done in a fairly >>>>>>>> lightweight manner. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Maybe others object? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -Darin >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
