Screen saver?

[eliyak]

I have a web kiosk at a business to give access to (primarily) our
website. I want to be able to have a screensaver with pictures of our
products. Is there some simple way to do this that I don't know about
'cause I'm a n00b?

[Kai Hendry]

AFAIK there is no event fired by the browser to detect idleness. This sucks. :)

Perhaps I can modify Webconverger to point to a different homepage if
it's detected idleness with the kioskresetstation script.

http://webconverger.org/todo/

Currently by default Webconverger will just blank after 10 minutes.

http://hetty.webconverger.org/blanking/

At least it's somewhat environmentally friendly. :-)

Kind regards,

[Guttorm Flatabø]

Wouldn't an AJAXy slideshow as startpage do the trick? After the user has used the browser the kioskresetstation option could bring it back to the slideshow.

[Kai Hendry]

Yes, good idea! And when the AJAXy slide show is interrupted, then the
user can proceed to surf as usual. :-)

[Kai Hendry]

Hi guys,

On 7 February 2012 09:50, Kai Hendry <hen...@webconverger.com> wrote:
> Still I think a Web orientated screensaver is what I want I aim for...

I spent some time investigating how to do a "Web screensaver" and put
the code and thoughts into:
https://github.com/Webconverger/Screensaver/

I think writing a good one would require fairly good Web skills, and
judging how hard it is for some people to put a bg.png in the right
place... http://webconverger.org/artwork I'm not confident people will
make use of the code. ;)

Perhaps I'll write a service for folks to upload 5 or so PNGs, and
then do an attractor loop for their customisation. All the customiser
would need to do is add a script src= line, or maybe I can inject it
via the extension... Hmmm, sounds a little dodgy for cross site
attacks, but I've seen worse.

WDYT?

King regards,