IIRC, someone asked this a couple months ago. I believe the answer was
that http://code.google.com/p/chromiumembedded/ might be of interest.
I could see patches being welcome as long as they were fairly clean. I know
that's not an "official" answer, but you're probably not going to get a
"yes" from anyone unless they can see the impact it'd have.
J
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.
>
>
> >
>
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