Actually, ChromeFrame is not yet an option on Mac or Linux.-Darin
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Chrome Frame is a good option, but you'd still need a way to turn off some
> features. For example, a kiosk probably doesn't want to have a context
> menu.
> -Darin
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Amit Joshi <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> I think you should really consider embedding chrome frame ActiveX in your
>> own simple shell. That will not only enable the application to be started
>> with desired real estate and get rid of status bubble but allow you to
>> customize it further if needed.
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Darin Fisher <da...@chromium.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm in the minority, but it doesn't sound that unreasonable to
>>> support command line options for disabling the status bubble and starting in
>>> full screen mode. We could lump these together into a --kiosk-mode command
>>> line flag. This seems like something that could be done in a fairly
>>> lightweight manner.
>>>
>>> Maybe others object?
>>>
>>> -Darin
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>
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