May be you can add AI to your page, nobody make slides by hand now.
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
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Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
It'd be cool to add a third dimension to reveal.js decks. One of the transition animation options is "zoom", which visual effect is like going into / through the current slide. The Overview mode could be enhanced to show a 3D map (a stack of 2D layers). All kinds of fun mazes / games / interactive fiction use cases come to mind....
You guys are reinventing Prezi and I'm into it
We tried so many AI presentation makers but larger companies have brand standards to adhere to and these are terrible at handling them. That's the reason we started to hand roll web apps as presentations.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#183HTML and CSS feel fundamentally better suited for slide decks than JSON. At their core, most slides just boil down to simple flexbox structures: ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ┌─ Row 1 Container ───────────────────┐ │ │ │ ┌─ 4-way padding ─────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ [ Text Content ] (child node) │ │ │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ ↕ gap │ │ ┌…
For layouts that need to be static with a fixed page size like PowerPoint slides it's better to have specific placement, otherwise you will be constantly fighting with the layout engine. It's just a tradeoff I guess.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#184Cool project, I had been using markdown based slide tools for similar use-cases:
- Marp: https://marp.app/
- Slidev: https://sli.dev/
- Revealjs: https://revealjs.com/
Something more similar, based on HTML and CSS but instead based on the Svelte framework, was Animation: https://animotion.pages.dev/
It focuses on presentations that include animations, but of course it's flexible.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#185Hey, I just wanted to say thank you for writing this -- I couldn't find a way of contacting you directly in the repo, so I'll just have to bury this here! I really appreciate the work that went into this, and the design.
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#186Hi, 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…
How do we UPDATE the underlying engine once it gets new features? Since this is a self contained HTML file I am not sure how this works.
Editing multiple things at once (select via CTRL) needs some more options (like text centering).
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#187That is quite useful and simple indeed.
thanks :-)
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#188great project
Re: Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
#189Hey just wanted to say I think this fills an extremely common niche in the corporate world. There are a couple of teams at my company who switched to some variant of fancy html/javascript and away from either cloud or desktop copies of off-the-shelf presentation or visualization software because they were tired of bugs not being fixed or custom features not getting added Internal IT fiefdoms everywhere should be very…
Exactly what we've seen in our company. A lot of techies create these awesome web-app presentations which look awesome and wows everybody, but then some poor person that has Claude but not Claude Code (we somehow decided it was only for techies/SWEs) would then be scratching their heads on what to do because some figures are wrong and they need to update it before the very-important-steerco in the afternoon.
Do they not have cowork? This is so exemplary for why Anthropic has been focusing on Cowork and why OpenAI has now copied them with "Codex in ChatGPT App".