Just a couple of things I would like to be able to do with the browser:
View Web Pages - We run a lo-fi version of our intranet (with javascript/ajax) at almost the same resolution as the browser window on our current software. Would it be possible you could add a web page window to the browser?
Add items on load - Would it be possible if I could set the items I wanted to load at start up in the config? For example if you did choose the browser idea I could add that, and the clock, database browser etc?
Well, in principle, mAirList is a radio automation software. We should stay sensible when imagining new things to include in the browser. (In some very early version, there used to be an integrated e-mail client for listener interaction, but then I figured that this should rather be an external application.)
A web browser is a nice idea though. The easiest way would be to integrate the (ugly) MSIE as an ActiveX control. Although, not being a Microsoft supporter, that would cost me quite an effort Let’s talk about this again when v2.0 is out and I’m crazy about new features …
Start a new file, open then browsers you want and save the file as “standard.mlt” in your mAirList directory. This file will be loaded each time you run mAirList. Make sure the “save along with playlist templates” option is enabled in the browser config. You can also save several different setups under different namens and open them with the -o command line option through a Windows shortcut (mAirList.exe -o filename.mlt).
The ‘integrated’ WWW browser in Jazler Radio is one of the things which put me off using it.
I agree with Torben that mAirList should ‘do what it says on the tin,’ to quote the famous UK ad.
Any kind of WWW interaction on a playout PC would make me very nervous, no matter how much anti-virus, anti-malware, etc. is installed. Presenters always seem to want to download all sorts of “really useful things” when you give them a WWW browser (eeek!).
By all means have a separate PC if the presenter really needs a WWW browser, but I would advise keeping any playout PC ‘pure’ and ideally running NOTHING else; and certainly not a WWW browser. Just my tuppenceworth…
I didnt really want it so they could get to any page - just ones set in the config or something. Mainly just for things like webmail and intranets.
Alot of my users will use it on there own machine away from the studio so a seperate internet machine may not always be possible.
I agree totally with what your saying about people downloading ‘usefull’ things on studio machines tho!
It is probably something that would just be helpfull to me tho tbh…so maybe I shall think of another way to get to a webpage without a mouse or keyboard!
Let’s talk about this again when v2.0 is out and I’m crazy about new features …