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Finally got my turn to try out Jolicloud, a “cool new OS for your netbook“. I learned about it several weeks ago and it took quite a while for me to get a invite.
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Jolicloud private alpha2b
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 by marko
FxGrounded 1.3.4
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 by marko
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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Firefox plugin I saw long ago but was totally outdated.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).
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FxKeyboard: A Firefox keyboard for touchscreens
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 by marko
Ok, lets say you have a terminal that is serving the general public with a touchscreen interface. That particular system might be either on windows, linux or mac (or anything else you might have Firefox running on) and will most probably be run in full screen.
Finding a virtual keyboard that works good on any of those is a hard thing to find. I failed at finding it.So, how about a keyboard that works inside Firefox as a plugin ? Thats exactly what I imagined when i started on this project.
Here is a working plugin in my language and set for my specific needs.
FxKeyboard 1.1 – 3kb
fxkeyboard 1.1 English – Due to demand, a slightly more English version ( same layout as with the last one but English buttons, if someone makes a mockup for a real usable English layout, i will be glad to add it.)
GNU/GPL as usual, but i would like it if you ask for my permission before you use it in public accessible areas. If you are doing a kiosk system, you might also be interested in keeping firefox on the homepage using FxGrounded.
If you need customization, have a idea worth sharing or anything else, write me a email or comment this post.
Touchscreen Kiosk with Firefox vkeyboard Addon
Sunday, January 18th, 2009 by marko
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Creating a kiosk environment.
The tools:
- Touchscreen Monitor
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 ?
