After conversing a bit with one reader of my kiosk how-to, I was reminded how tricky it can be to really lock-down a modern web browser for kiosk use. It’s so tricky, that for my own needs I ended up writing my own browser.
Well, I figure it’s time to stop being stingy, so I am releasing the code to that browser under the GPL. You can find it on github, here:
https://github.com/alandmoore/wcgbrowser
Contributions would be welcome, as the code has some stupidities and shortcomings. It does work for my needs, and may work in a wide variety of situations, so feel free to make use of it.
I will, of course, appreciate code contributions from those so inclined!
RIP Dennis Ritchie
Was sad to see that Dennis Ritchie died this week. Between creating Unix and C, Dennis’s influences on modern computing are probably second to nobody. Here’s a pretty good writeup on him: Remembering Dennis Ritchie, Creator of the C Programming Language and UNIX Co-Creator.