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The Infopoint HTML Viewer is a light-weight, full screen viewer for web pages. 
As the name indicates, it is primarily focused on machines whose one and only 
purpose it is to display web pages (like network monitors, stock charts, or 
news).

Screenshots
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[[!img infopoint-html/default.png alt="Default view after installation"
  caption="Default view after installation"]]
[[!img infopoint-html/customized.png alt="View of a customized web site"
  caption="View of a customized web site"]]
</div>

How does it work?
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The software is built on 
[XULRunner](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner), the same framework 
Mozilla uses for Firefox and Thunderbird. It starts on system boot and simply 
displays a borderless window with the full size of the display, containing 
the contents of the web page you configured.

Due to its XULRunner ancestry, the Infopoint HTML Viewer can show any content 
that your good old Firefox can show, including `http://`, `ftp://` and 
`file://` URLs, 
<abbr title="(Extensible) Hypertext Markup Language">(X)HTML</abbr> with (or 
without) JavaScript and <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr>, 
<abbr title="Extensible Markup Language">XML</abbr>/<abbr 
title="Extensible Stylesheet Language">XSL</abbr> documents, pictures and 
plain text.

Cool, what do I have to do?
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  * Get a machine with a network connection and a big display. For example, you
    can hook a [Raspberry Pi][http://www.raspberrypi.org/] to a TV.
  * Install a fresh [Debian](http://debian.org/distrib) system on it (“base” 
    package set is totally sufficient). For the Raspberry Pi, you might want to
    use [Raspbian][http://raspbian.org/].
  * Add my [[personal Debian repository|rohieb-name-repo]]).
  * Install the Infopoint HTML Viewer: `apt-get install infopoint-html`
  * Configure the URL you want to display: edit `/etc/default/infopoint-html` 
    and change the `URL` option. Also be sure to set `AUTOSTART="yes"`.
  * `/etc/init.d/infopoint-html start`, or simply reboot.
  * Voilà!

Resources
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  * Source and issue tracker can be found on 
    [GitHub](https://github.com/rohieb/infopoint-html). Feel free to fork :-)