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.
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