Topic: My HTML Viewer Project
As much as I like the space clock, I needed something more. I've never liked the idea of creating widgets in flash, but I'm familiar with HTML/Javascript so I've started an attempt at replacing the standard dashboard with an HTML Viewer which can be used to display a downloaded HTML/Javascript whatever (dashboard, widget system, webpage, etc).
Aside: I'm not calling it a webbrowser because the goal isn't to browse the web, but instead to display an HTML page (so there is no history, no bookmarks, and limited interaction).
I started with the QtWebkit/webbrowser example and made it full screen and chromeless. The casual observer only sees the rendered HTML and has no idea what is actually driving it.
I have the whole thing on a USB thumb driving running because of a debugchumby script. I have it running on an Insignia-3-incher.
As my proof of concept, I wrote, in HTML/Javascript, a Picasa viewer with clock and weather overlay. I've had some problems with it running out of memory, but I think I've fixed those.
My next steps are to allow Javascript access to screen brightness and the top button, and to see if I can get audio to work. I hope to turn this back into an alarm clock that auto-dims at night.
I can't say that any of my code is great, but I would be willing to post source code and/or binaries if anyone is interested. If there is a level of interest, it might influence me to make the code more share-able, but if there isn't any interest, I'll probably just keep things as the hack job they are.