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Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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Post by crashabr »

Pretty cool. I have my own setup for presentations, and I also use revealjs, but I made the choice to have the content be sourced from a markdown to be able make presentation contents as indexable and reusable as any other content produced by my team.

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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Post by analog_daddy »

calebm wrote: post #9

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

Thanks for taking the initiative to create this page! I was disappointed with the search feature github had regarding searching these type of files.

Here are some more such tools I feel you might find interesting (or most likely you might already know them) but might be worth having in a single place as a list.

Nash is stand alone note as HTML. Source: https://github.com/keepworking/nash I recommend nash for when i feel people might get overwhelmed with tiddlywiki.

htpad: Handwritten scratch pad saves stuff to SVG. Source: https://github.com/akissinger/htpad I just use this for drawing on screen since teams annotation sucks.

Minimal PWA template. Source: https://github.com/chr15m/minimal-pwa A minimal template that should ideally work, but i wasn’t able to get it working with marimo wasm notebooks.

Currently, my focus is to use python either using pyscript or hopefully just use marimo to have python apps for simple things. I don’t want to learn js and avoided this side longer than i would have wanted. But python WASM ecosystem has grown significantly to a point where i feel investing time in building these tools.

Currently, marimo is having issues with the completely offline part but hopefully, that gets fixed!

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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Post by connorgurney »

calebm wrote: post #9

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

We used to have these back in the days of Windows XP in the form of “HTML Applications”, though I recall them being atrocious from a security perspective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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Post by Mtinie »

rpdillon wrote: post #62
mbreese wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was my biggest question. Thanks for preemptively answering (and being proud!). When I was playing with this, I immediately thought of TiddlyWikis, which I've always been fond of, but they never took for me. However, an easily editable presentation -- that's a use case I can understand. I couldn't see how there was a CDRT when I'm just working with a single file. I was trying to figure out where the server was. S…

My project for the past few years is called AppDeck, collection of self-contained HTML files that know how to save themselves back to the AppDeck server, which is just WebDAV. AI has been enormously helpful in building out a suite of apps that can do this. So far I have a diagram editor that can produce SVGs, a multi-document editor that backs everything with markdown, but supports Kandan boards, documents, logs, and…

My initial reaction was “woah, you just described HyperCard”. Which isn’t exactly true in retrospect, but kudos for capturing the promise of (at least for me) one of the formative technologies that subtly, and not so subtly, influenced the web we know today.

Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)

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Post by skybrian »

starfallg wrote: post #37
skybrian wrote: post #36

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Also, viewing slides on a tablet, I don’t see a way to open speaker notes since I can’t “press the S key.” These instructions should probably be different if you’re not on desktop. Maybe display speaker notes by default if the screen is in portrait mode?

The slideshow button is a split pill, you can open it there where there is this tiny up arrow that opens up a drop down menu. But on tablet it probably doesn't do what you want it to as it was built for multi-screen use on the desktop. I'll have a think on this tonight and I'm sure we can do a tablet speaker notes mode.

I tried out the speaker view now that I'm on my laptop, and that would be great for someone actually giving a presentation, but since I'm just viewing it, it's not quite what I want. (For one thing, the animations don't happen.)

I just want to see the speaker notes while looking at the slides.

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