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Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Kiosk applications with HTML/JavaScript
<h1>This is a test</h1> Recently one of our clients asked me about the possibility to build a kiosk application with a Mac mini and a huge display with touch support. The display is really big about 2 meters wide. Why Mac mini, I asked, it’s expensive and makes no sense. The client answered — “we just have one and our admin is like Apple”. I’ve investigated a little and asked our devs to make a proof of concept. And we found that it’s possible with ElectronJS. You just need to do the following when you initialize ElectronJS window. And that works perfectly on Mac — the application is full screen, and you don’t have access to the dock and menu bar. Don’t forget to add a possibility to exit, I have to shut down my Mac the first time to close it. Also in Kvinivel we are the ...
Sunday, 13 November 2016
Electron. Asynchrony, Modules and C/C++ There are a lot of posts about NodeJS describing innovative solutions for JavaScript on the server side. However, there is another place where JavaScript, V8 and Chrome HTML engines can be applied. is...