I'm doing something similar for linemonkey.com. Our main motivation is also speed. As of yesterday, I took over Linux printing and am adding the ability to suppress the print dialog (cross- platform).
We are doing this for an in-store kiosk and Point-Of-Sale system. We also have peripherals, like bar code scanners and credit card swipers (magstripes). linemonkey.com is just a website, but the online order processing happens through a web-based POS running on Google Chrome, for now. Very soon (a few months), we will be replacing the Google Chrome usage with a frozen Linux distribution that includes our modified Chromium. We will be delivering these computers already setup straight to the merchant. If we could team up on any of this, that would be great. Andy On Dec 23, 2009, at 10:48 AM, simonb wrote: > It would be nice to see something like this in Chrome. In the > meantime, have you had a look at Prism? It sounds similar to what you > are trying to achieve and it keeps up to date with the latest Firefox. > http://prism.mozilla.com/ > > > On Dec 22, 10:46 am, Cees <[email protected]> wrote: >> My company is currently working with a 'container' that is based on >> FF2. Our (web) application supports airport staff with checking in, >> boarding, load control etc. There are 2 main reasons why we can't use >> a standard web browser in these environments: >> 1-There are very specific peripheral devices that need to be >> supported. it is bit too complex to describe this in detail, but we >> need to support at least 4 different legacy middleware (common use) >> systems that run boarding pass printers, bar code scanners etc. >> Signals from these devices are passed on to the web server. >> 2-No open browsers are supported due to security regulations on the >> airport, and if they exist, they are set to maximum security. >> >> We resolved these issues by creating our own stripped version of FF2. >> This version is: >> -stripped (in order to limit the size of the executable >> -does not have an address bar. It only contains a set number of URL's >> (our prod system and some test systems) >> -able to interact with the airport peripherals (exchanging device >> addresses) >> >> of course this container needed to be certified by the various >> infrastructure providers, and it needs to be rolled out once. >> >> The above solution works. It allows us to roll out a web based >> application, and run it in airport environments, but rendering of FF2 >> is dramatic compared to any modern browser, especially Chrome. In >> short, we want to redo this trick and use Google chrome open source >> as >> the base for our new 'container'. Has anyone done something similar >> before? Are there any suggestions? The main driver is: speed. >> >> Cees. > > -- > Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -- Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss
