Very nice program! Thanks.

thank you

Plainview is a beautiful piece of software! I use it for reading the New Yorker archives (http://archives.newyorker.com), and it's a much better experience than any other Mac browser.

One publicity tip: you guys should set up an official Facebook page (like http://www.facebook.com/Firefox for Firefox). I searched on Facebook in the hope of becoming a fan of Plainview, but I didn't find anything.

Thanks for the new version! Is there a way to control the time delay before it returns to the home page? We're using it in an exhibit that requires visitors to do a lot of reading (which they actually do) but sometimes it times out before they are ready.

I've also struggled with what seems to be a quirk in Mac OS X. Namely that even if you set LSUIPresentationMode to 3 on an app, if that app launches *before* there has been any mouse movement, the menubar will show up. For a museum kiosk, I want to be able to have a machine boot, autologin a restricted user, and autolaunch Plainview with a Login item. The problem is that since this all happens without the mouse moving, the menu bar works as if it's in auto-hide rather than in always off mode. My current workaround is to launch an Applscript that puts up a small dialog box with one button. To click the button, you have to move the mouse. Then the script launches Plainview and all is well. I bet there's a clever way this could be dealt with inside Plainview by perhaps resetting the LSUIPresentation mode after a mouse move is detected.

Return-to-home mode also does not seem to close the secondary/pop-up window, something that would be very useful.

At any rate, I've found Plainview to work better for most kiosk applications we have at the MIT Museum than Opera's kiosk mode. Opera can be a bit slow, especially on sites with a lot of Flash.

Thanks for the feedback Allan. The touch-the-mouse bug has been the bane of my life for a while now. I'll looking into ways to fix it so hopefully we'll find something soon.

I'm also working up some changes for the next build to beef up the return-to-home feature. Including a variable timer, and in response to your comments, closing all secondary windows. Hopefully we'll have it up in the next couple of weeks.

Hi there. I really like the Plainview browser. I've been looking for this functionality ever since Saft for Safari stopped working for me years ago. Your implementation of a full screen browser is excellent. Thank you ver much.

There is one feature that I would REALLY love to see: The ability (like every other browser I've used) for Plainview to accept URLs from other programs. I use LaunchBar all the time to open websites in Safari. This doesn't seem to work with Plainview. (It opens in Safari instead, even though I specify Plainview as the target). I tried to drag a URL to the Plainview icon in the dock: The Plainview icon doesn't "darken" to indicate itself as a drag-and-drop target so I suspect this is the problem.

Please if it is at all possible would you add this functionality to a future release of Plainview. I would use and recommend the app all the time if it could do this!

Hey I'll look into that. We've got an update brewing and I'll see if i can get that one in.

Still no way to clear browsing history?

That will be in the update coming out later this week.

PlainView is really neat however, I have some issues... in priority order:

1) I'd love to be able to launch PlainView with a specified URL. Either AppleScript (ideal) or from the terminal. Interestingly I can type "./Plainview http://news.bbc.co.uk" into terminal (directory /Applications/PlainView.app/Contents/MacOS) and I see a message saying readFromURL: http://news.bbc.co.uk, but what I actually get is a white PlainView window with no other content.

2) support for url/webloc files would be awesome

3) Can you do presentations based on timing rather than clicks? I suspect not, this would be kinda useful too.

Saff: #1 and #2 are in the update dropping in the next few days. #3 is part of a larger overhaul in progress.

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