need advice

Hi,

I am helping with an expostion in a small local museum. No fancy budgets.

We want to place an older pc with win98 and run a slideshow with pictures
and text on it, written in simple html. The visitor should be allowed to
'mouseclick' links at the slides HTML pages to go to specific parts of the
slideshow. The keyboard will be removed and the visitor cannot make use of
that.

My problem is that i do not want the visitor to get into the system or in
the menu of the browser to use (for instance by moving the mouse to the
taskbar of win98 or by clicking in the menu of the browser.
1) Can i somehow hide completly the menu of (what) browser?
2) Can i somehow prefent the user to get to the win98 menus?
3) Should i use some special browser for this purpose (although i would like
to keep it to Internet Explorer as that is available on the pc that we can
have on loan)?

Any ideas?

Hans

1) Can i somehow hide completly the menu of (what) browser?
2) Can i somehow prefent the user to get to the win98 menus?
3) Should i use some special browser for this purpose

To hide the menu if using IE press "start" button - "run" then type
"iexplore -k"
this will run in kiosk mode (similar to presisng f11 which is full screen)
and you cant access the start menu

To avoid people right clicking on the page with the mouse use this script:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!-- Begin
function right(e) {
if (navigator.appName == 'Netscape' &&
(e.which == 3 || e.which == 2))
return false;
else if (navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' &&
(event.button == 2 || event.button == 3)) {
alert("Right click disabled");
return false;
}
return true;
}

document.onmousedown=right;
document.onmouseup=right;
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEDOWN);
if (document.layers) window.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);
window.onmousedown=right;
window.onmouseup=right;
// End -->
</script>

You could always get them to buy a kiosk monitor screen so users touch the
screen and then no mouse is needed. I worked on a project such as this for
the V&A museum - the only difference will be you need large buttons if using
touch screen applications.

Luke