<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I agree that a browser based application would be good because some mark-up could be used to facilitate the required functionality. Keyboard shortcuts would have to be blocked though. It is a pity that this question was not put earlier, it might have been taken up by one on the participants at last weekend's "Leeds Hack".</span></div><div><span>Brian<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David Spencer <baildon.research@googlemail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> bradford <bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 31 July 2012, 10:57<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Bradford] Lock down android tablet for public use<br> </font> </div> <br>Not sure this is on the right track, but here we go anyway. Using a<br>browser as a front end would do what they need and zina<br><a href="http://www.pancake.org/zina/" target="_blank">http://www.pancake.org/zina/</a> comes close on the requirements though<br>might take some fiddling to do per-track images and text instead of<br>per-album. Use the old version to avoid need for database.<br><br>Even better, you might prefer to use that as inspiration to knock up<br>something even simpler yourself. It's not hard to envisage browser<br>buttons that use trivial CGI scripts to control playback via mpc & mpd<br>/ whatever, the images & text would be trivial, and with static html<br>you could even host the content
locally in flat files on each tablet<br>(no need for even a local httpd). Just up your street Mr Carpenter<br>:-)<br><br>> Please save paper and only print this email if you have to.<br><br>Hey, you could quit the band and go solo with a Sting tribute act :P<br><br>Tarra<br>-D.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bradford mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk">Bradford@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br><a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford" target="_blank">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/bradford</a><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>