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I would call this a slide show not powerpoint mostly because making it work with the satanic office formats is a path to hell. Hopefully simpler formats like this will become the norm and the old ones can die.
You are right, but I guess a lot of people recognise PowerPoint as a brand. Maybe I can bill this as better-than-powerpoint!
Great project. But please check the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)
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I'm don't care. If it's good, it's good.
Agreed, but the days of software projects being ambitious or impressive are over.
Awesome. I've been trying to promote this kind of Single-File Web Apps as a concept - feel free to add this to the proposed Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Single_File_Web_Apps
I don't think WP is the right place for this. It is supposed to be a tertiary source, not a place to promote concepts you want to see established.
This is so cool! When I initially saw the title I was wondering how this is different from SlideJS or similar, but this is really cool and now I'm wondering if this could (at least in theory) be integrated into something like Pandoc as an output option?
Hi, I'm the creator of Bento. Just wanted to share a bit more about how I created it beyond what's in Github. The file contains more or less two sections. There is a plain block of JSON near the top of the file which is the slide data. You can read, grep, or point a harness at it. The app itself is in a base64 blob that loads through a small shim which deflates in the browser with DecompressionStream, which keeps the…
e.g. https://revealjs.com/#/2/1 You just make one slide deck with lightweight high-abstraction slides and depending on the audience you just... hit the down arrow. bam. now you're inside the tech slides. no nerdy tech guys? sweet, don't hit down on slide 3. Instead you're with the marketing guys, so hit down on slide 5.
Anyway - looks like you got rid of that in order to mimic Powerpoint, but... don't forget it's there. it's my favorite part of using Reveal.js!