RE: kidproof Local HTML browser (was Re: [kidsgames] BOUNCE kids

[Erik <br0ke@math.smsu.edu>]

On 24-Mar-2000 Doug Loss wrote:
> Kidsgames Project Coordinator - Jeff Waddell wrote:
> 
>> Something that I would REALLY like to see though, is
>> a kidproof Local HTML browser.
>>
>> I can't find a safe enough HTML browser for little kids to
>> use.  They all have all those buttons and menus across
>> the top. What I need is a browser that can be invoked
>> with a command line arguments that turn all the menus off
>> and launch it for an index file on the command line, like
>> this:
>>
>> mysterybrowser --nomenus solar_system.html
>>

The only thing in netscape that can't be tucked out of the way is the menu. 

>> so that the internal links will work, but there aren't any
>> distracting menus for stray mouse clicks.
>>

Lynx has no danger of stray mouse clicks. :)

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> Finally (and here I don't know too much about the possibilities), there's
> Gecko, the rendering
> engine for Mozilla.  That may be overkill for what you're looking for, but
> it's supposed to be
> embeddable in other apps.
> 

right now, gecko is a really really big GTK+ widget, so it'd be trivial to use
in another program. It has been bonobo-ized several times in the past, and the
gtk+/gnome guys expect it will done again. I think gecko is NPL'd, not GPL'd,
so I don't know what legal issues are there. The gnome guys said none, but I
haven't personally read enough of the NPL to know for sure (and I wouldn't
screw with anything without knowing the legal issues for sure)

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        -Erik <erik@smluc.org> [http://math.smsu.edu/~br0ke]

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