Full screen mode for touch screen kiosk

[barkingPete]

I wanted to make a very simple public information kiosk using a touch screen and a browser. Our WebTech made a "full screen" sized site using Silex and (after some problems were solved) I loaded the thing into Firefox. I soon discovered that the only easy way to truly get a full screen product playing from start up on FF is to use a combination of add-ons. Thankfully they exist and are easy to install. I used:

R-kiosk 0.9.0 (for full screen on start up)
HideScrollbars 0.2 (to err, hide the scroll bars that insisted on displaying)
Status-4-Evar 2013.10.31.22 (to hide the status messages and link displays)

So now the computer can start up and immediately display the web pages in full screen mode. Neat and relatively simple to do.

[barkingPete]

I have discovered a problem with using SIlex publications for standalone / off-line kiosks.
Silex needs to connect to the internet to access files. Even if the files published are all available locally. The reason is simple. The default script contains these lines:

... link href="http://static.silex.me/2.2/normalize.css" rel="stylesheet">

... link href="http://static.silex.me/2.2/front-end.css" rel="stylesheet">

If these files are available in cache then all is OK. But if the system is being used off-line with no internet connection then Silex renders the screen incorrectly and reacts to screen touches incorrectly.

Is there any way to include the relevant files locally or must these files be obtained via the internet? If that is true then this feature precludes Silex from being used for standalone touch screen kiosks.

[lexoyo]

Hi Pete!

I have fixed this
lexoyo@c4309b7

Can you please test publishing from http://preprod.silex.me

[lexoyo]

And check for other side effects please, because automatic functional tests are insufficient for now :(

[barkingPete]

I have published the web site using the preprod.silex (on 8 July 2014) and the new style sheets are copied to the CSS folder - but the assets (images) are not copied to the assets folder. So I am unable to "fully" test the publish process on the new system.
I have copied the image files by hand to assets folder but that does not cure the problem. No images are displayed so there is a pathing issue on current preprod.silex version.

[singchan]

Is it ok now on www.silex.me ?
@lexoyo has pushed a new version

[barkingPete]

Yes - everything seems to work as specified now. The bug seems to have been preprod. specific and is now fixed. The kiosk based website is "live" and being used. Lets see how it goes!

[lexoyo]

Well done @barkingPete !!! Keep us informed :)