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+Infopoint HTML Viewer
+=====================
+
+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).
+
+[[!img defaults size="200x"]]
+[[!img infopoint-html/default.png alt="Default view after installation"
+ alt="Default view after installation"]]
+[[!img infopoint-html/customized.png alt="View of a customized web site"
+ alt="View of a customized web site"]]
+
+How does it work?
+-----------------
+
+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,
+(X)HTML with (or
+without) JavaScript and CSS,
+XML/XSL documents, pictures and
+plain text.
+
+Cool, what do I have to do?
+---------------------------
+
+ * Get a machine with a network connection and a big display
+ * Install a fresh [Debian](http://debian.org/distrib) system on it (âbaseâ
+ package set is totally sufficient)
+ * Add my Debian repository (instructions [here](/projects/wilhelm-gym-repo))
+ * Install the Infopoint HTML Viewer: `aptitude 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
+---------
+
+TODO: add License information
+
+ * Source and issue tracker can be found on
+ [GitHub](https://github.com/rohieb/infopoint-html). Feel free to fork :-)
+ *
+
+