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Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
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#112I still hold the opinion that good typography and simple layout beats semi-interactive animated pages made up of static content (ie: graphs with real time update).
Agreed. A single chart clearly illustrating the point you are trying to make vs. an interactive do-hickey that I have to twat about with and then infer meaning from, IMHO shows a huge disrespect for time of the audience. After all, its the authors responsibility to communicate their ideas clearly and effectively; no one is entitled to an audience. I wish more documents/spreadsheets/presentations understood this.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not easily. Not by your average user.
From a technical perspective a standard web page could be saved in single HTML file that can be opened offline (with all JS/CSS inlined and images base64 encoded and inclined)--so it can be as easy as double-clicking on a file (just an .html file instead of .ppt). The average user probably lacks this knowledge though and wouldn't know to or try to double-click on an html file but it is technically feasible.
Microsoft had technology to do just this in 1999 (!). It was known as 'HTA' (Html Applications) but was ahead of its time - the rich DOM manipulation and CSS effects we have now didn't exist. HTA was discontinued years ago afaik, but in hindsight it was a peak at the future.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Try to imagine the same ad from Apple. With Surface Pro 3 and Nokia Lumia. Not
Why? Apple is the leader; why should they bow down to the level of inferior competitors? Microsoft didn't refer to iphones and ipads out of the goodness of their hearts; but because these devices are the devices of choice for the creative crowd.
Uhm for example because office/onenote on android/iphone works great and are completely cross-platform (with Linux you are confined to the browser but oh well)?
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#116Sounds like I need to have a meeting with my attorney: http://buildsway.com/
There was also http://www.findsway.com/ , the failed Tinder wannabe that was available on Android before Tinder. The exclusivity of popular iOS apps (mainly this...all those doods hooking up tho) somewhat contributed to my 5s purchase. I was using Sway just before it came out and would find something like 10 people with the maximum search radius and age range xD Anyways, I have since deleted my accounts and uninstalled both of these apps.
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#117Some examples, https://sway.com/red_panda https://sway.com/greening_my_thumb https://sway.com/northwest_aquarium
I'm getting motion sickness going through those.
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#118Some comments here express some head scratching on what exactly Sway is. I only saw the demo video like everyone else so I don't claim to know definitively but here's my take on where Sway fits. It looks like we're in a general upward trend of richer interactive documents created by average users . Some observations of the zeitgiest that look unrelated on the surface but nevertheless, seems to point towards a common…
I'm personally looking into iPython - it seems like a useful tool for interactive presentations. For example: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/plotly/python-user-guide/...
Shiny is pretty nice for presentations and Plotly works with R. Not to knock IPyNb because I love it too.
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#119Some comments here express some head scratching on what exactly Sway is. I only saw the demo video like everyone else so I don't claim to know definitively but here's my take on where Sway fits. It looks like we're in a general upward trend of richer interactive documents created by average users . Some observations of the zeitgiest that look unrelated on the surface but nevertheless, seems to point towards a common…
Everything that is old is new again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/06/17/hypercard
Re: Sway: A new presentation application from Microsoft
#120I still hold the opinion that good typography and simple layout beats semi-interactive animated pages made up of static content (ie: graphs with real time update).
People always say that good typography beats everything but I have yet to see anyone explain typography more than the "use serifs for this and use sans serifs for that".