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WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by jlantunez »

dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

Good karma (hypertext) and productivity (presentations, landings, and long-forms). Designers, marketers, and journalists can now focus on the content.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by brnkrygs »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #5
jvehent wrote: 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.

I'm fairly sure that reveal.js URLs are hackable... the slide number is added to the URL as an anchor. Setting that in your URL bar might be a simple way to jump around to various slides. Also, ESC brings up a slide map that you can jump around on.

e.g. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/2

(Hi from a fellow enthusiast)

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by dfinninger »

franciscop wrote: post #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…

I agree here. When I got to the site I thought that it was just a placeholder image until I saw your comment and tried the keyboard.

Browsing the web is pretty mouse/trackpad driven. Especially for landing sites like this. It just felt un-intuitive.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by CJefferson »

dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

One advantage is I have 5 year old) keynote presentations that keynote refuses to open (tells me file format is too old), and 3 year old PowerPoint slides the new version messes up the formatting of. I'm slightly more confident my HTML will continue to render right, and at least open!

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by lindig »

reimertz wrote: post #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. :)

Have you tried it on Safari? I see mostly empty pages.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by m_fayer »

dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

Portability. If you have to send a presentation around, embedding fonts in PowerPoint only works if the viewer is on a Windows machine, and keynote is not an option if your viewer is on a PC.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by detaro »

dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

in addition to what others have said: teamwork. Coordinating a group working on Powerpoint slides is quite annoying, text-based formats are a lot easier to manage and merge, especially for technical folk familiar with git & co. Google Slides is the only GUI variant I know that deals with this by syncing changes immediately, and it has other weaknesses.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by dublinben »

m_fayer wrote: post #27
dagenleg wrote: post #13

Yes, but why make html presentations at all? Are there any tangible benefits except for fancy animations?

Portability. If you have to send a presentation around, embedding fonts in PowerPoint only works if the viewer is on a Windows machine, and keynote is not an option if your viewer is on a PC.

If you're worried about portability, you can export as a PDF. You could also use LibreOffice, which is cross-platform.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by reimertz »

lindig wrote: post #26
reimertz wrote: post #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. :)

Have you tried it on Safari? I see mostly empty pages.

I accidentally pushed a what I thought to be a fix that turned out to break everything in v0.6.4. everything is fine now in v0.6.5.

Sorry about that.

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