webXkiosk

webXkiosk is a full screen, web kiosk application with security, web screen saver, and more
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  • License:
  • Freeware
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Hua Ying Ling and Everette Allen
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://www.ncsu.edu/mac/software/adminlauncher.html
  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.3 or later
  • File Size:
  • 317 KB

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webXkiosk Description

webXkiosk is a full screen, web kiosk application with security, web screen saver, and more webXkiosk is a full screen, web kiosk application with security, web screen saver, and some "universal access" features. This application can be used to create public information and/or web kiosks. webXkiosk is meant to be deployed in a secured environment where it has replaced the Finder for a standard or managed user.Main features of webXkiosk:NaviLinks - Note navilinks changed between 1.5.0 and 1.5.5 to fix bug by replacing the .button file scheme with the url type described here. NaviLinks is a feature of webXkiosk where the url of form navi: is trapped when clicked and used to simulate pushing a tool bar button. Currently these are back, forward, home, larger, smaller, startover, reload, and print. Example the url navi//print (properly written with the : of course) will do the same thing when clicked in a web page as pushing the print button on the toolbar. We provide this to get around some anoying bugs in WebKit where some common javascript functions (like window.print) are not supported in public frameworks (ie works in safari but not in webkit apps). A navilinks test page is available at http://www.ncsu.edu/mac/software/navilinks.html. Printing - there are now 3 preferences which control printing a) Allow Printing - if this is on then pages can be printed if not no other setting matter there will be no printing , b) Show Print Button - shows or hides the print button in the tool bar, c) Show Print Panel - either puts up a standard Apple print dialog if on or prints directly to the printer if off.Embed Video - since Quicktime, Real Media and Windows Media video (and other motions graphics) files usually download a file and use a helper to to display even if there are plug-ins to handle the content we need a way to display them in the secured, full screen, webXkiosk environment. The simple answer is to have everyone embed their content but we can not depend on other folks to "be good" and write embed tags. Instead this options is provided which will register with the webkit for the mime types, take the url, wrap it in our own embed tags and display it. Currently the preferences panel allows 240x180, 320x240, 640x480, or fill the available screen (max) and scales the content to display with a controler. NOTE: the correct plug-in must be installed in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins for this feature to work.What's New in This Release:Universal binaryfixed bug where info sheet would crash application if no network connectionfixed bug where cancel button on password sheet would hang application.


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