Web-based menuing system; problems with users changing text size, encodings. . .

[Charles P. Hobbs]

Our library has developed a web-based menu system, based on a lot of
Andrew Mutch's javascripts. (Thanks, Andy!)

In this system, the browser (IE 5 in our case) is always running, with
a "kiosk" window (iexplore.exe -k). Access to our databases, or other
Internet services is provided by javascript links that open new windows.
These new windows can be closed or otherwise manipulated (within limits),
but the

The security program "Winselect" prevents users from terminating the
browser, entering Windows or most other "anti-social" behavior.

One problem I'm running into, though, is that we allow users to change
the font size and encoding (for disabled access and foreign language
users). Unfortunately, these changes often show up on the menu page
(the kiosk page behind all the new windows) and on subsequent windows
as well, causing various problems (large fonts taking too much paper to
print, etc.)

I can probably set a font size for the kiosk page (I haven't tried it
yet), but I don't know if I can set an encoding there, though.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!


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