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Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#4
I generally use RemarkJS to create my slides (https://github.com/gnab/remark).

However, what's the difference between this tool and https://slides.com/ (and it's MIT open sourced at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/) ?

EDIT: not saying you should not create this tool...but what was the motivation? (or the differentiation factors?)

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#5
post #2

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ is my framework of choice when making slides.

reveal.js + pandoc + some customization is what I'm sitting at right now. While I like it a lot, I could imagine that reveal.js's default layout isn't suitable for presentations with lots of details. Also haven't figured out how to jump to a particular slide.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#6
Here's another pretty cool one using Elixir and Phoenix Channels (Websockets): https://github.com/ernie/venture

It also has markdown based slides but syncs the presentation to clients via websockets, and allows for interactive slides with things like Polls and live chats.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#9
I created CLI for creating simplistic presentations for my first lightning talk. It turned out pretty great so I open sourced it. It has some neat features such as live-reloading server, anonymous deployment, mirrored highlighting and cursor and speaker mode. https://reimertz.github.io/lagom

Would be awesome to get some more contributors.. hrmf, I mean, users. :)

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#10
Please make the website more usable. It has a really nice design but poor UX. At least I should be able to scroll to... scroll. And hiding elements until you hover over an invisible part of the screen is totally against a good UX (discoverability). This could be okay in games or in purely artistic webpages, but if you intend your visitors to use the page and read the content it is counterproductive.

Edit: being this a project for making slides on a website with such a poor UX gives a really bad feeling for your potential clients. Will the project itself have the same problems? Will I be trying to hurry to finish the presentation and not find a button to save as PDF because it's invisible? etc

Edit: the link was changed from the website to the github.com, this comment was intended for the original URL: https://webslides.tv/

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