wKiosk - 5.1

I keep trying wKiosk thinking it will be the solution for my touch screen kiosks. I like the security features like hiding the dock and menubar, and restarting in case of a crash. However wKiosk will NOT display RSS feeds consistently, even though it is built on the 'Safari engine'. wKiosk cannot render feeds starting with feed:// nor can it render XML that does not have style information associated with it and just displays one massive block of text. These are RSS feeds that display fine in Safari, Firefox, and iCab. Maybe wKiosk is simply adhering to standards, but like I said, Safari handles the feeds just fine.

As it stands I will continue to use iCab for my kiosks. Granted wKiosk is geared for kiosk use, while iCab is a browser first, with a kiosk mode addition. iCab kiosk mode is simple and straight forward to set up and displays RSS feeds as expected. With a few settings on the kiosk user account and help from a couple other utilities, I can lock my kiosks down pretty good. If you don't need to display various RSS feeds, wKiosk might be worth considering.

Having looked at several alternatives (iCab's Kiosk mode, various Firefox mods and others) this did the best job, and was almost the quickest to set up. We need to run Kiosks to print registration forms during induction weeks, and this is the only tool that handles printing sensibly.