Netscape Questions

[Glen Davies]

> 1. I'd highly prefer to have the Netscape program run full-size, by
> default, all the time. The perfect situation would have Netscape
> constantly at full-screen size, and any other programs that are invoked
> can be minimized but the icons would always be on top of Netscape. The
> potential problem is, if Netscape can be minimized (which it presently
> can) users who are unfamiliar with our new setup may have a hard time
> finding the menus they need to navigate our resources effectively.
> 
The latest version of integrity kisok (ikiosk) can be used to disable 
any  menu or button opition, so you could use this to disable the 
minimise options within Netscape. I don't know of a way to keep 
minimised icons on top in Win 3.1 though, the Win95 or NT 4 task bar 
is what you need.

> 2. Is there a relatively easy way to force Netscape to return to the home
> page after a certain period of inactivity? I read about one way, I believe
> using a language called Flute, but I was hoping to find an easier way. The
> solution using Flute would cause Netscape to return to the homepage after
> the mouse had been inactive for however many minutes you chose.
> 
I have tried the flute option but could not get it functioning 
properly, probably due to my inability, I resorted to the following 
line in the html header
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="600; url=http://home.com"> 

The 600 represents seconds so = 10 minutes, after which time netscape 
will return to http://home.com. It is not ideal as it works on a 
straight time factor rather than activity and it will only work on 
your own pages, ie. if a person leaves Netscape with an external 
sites page loaded it will not timeout. 
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