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Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by danappelxx »

jlantunez wrote: post #21
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.

I think you got it backwards... right now non-tech-savvy people focus on the content with their tooling (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides). Your tooling introduces a new layer of complexity: now they have to learn HTML and css to do the _exact same thing_. What you built looks great, but you have to reconsider who you're marketing it towards. I can't imagine anybody but a programmer using this.

If your goal is to build a platform for presentations like medium is for articles, isn't that what speakerdeck.com already is? If you want to build a better speakerdeck, just say that then? "A better way to create and share slides online"

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by hakakadera »

hakakadera wrote: post #47
armandososa wrote: post #41

Something to be aware: this is OP's first Github project. Let's be nice so it isn't the last.

for someone starting out with their first github project, one would appreciate your comment.. although one may be 100% OK for their work to be the subject of any rational analysis, it is worthwhile to know the constructive motive behind such discussion and thereby even criticism may encourage more future contributions (moving far from being the last project). +1 for being vocal

I humbly give the finger to the idiots who downvoted this. Reflects your elitism and easy priveleged life with no idea of what its like to live elsewhere other than where you grew up.

No wonder, valley is full of bullies who just did 10000 hours of practise but 0 hours of being human.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by skeletonjelly »

jlantunez wrote: post #34
jagger27 wrote: post #32

I have a bit of feedback: the scrolljacking doesn't work at all for me in Safari on macOS with a MacBook touchpad. All it does is activate the edge-bounce animation. Chrome is a little janky too, half activating the bounce animation and then advancing to the next slide. Firefox is fine since it doesn't do the edge-bounce. The worst crime (to me anyway) is the history spam and this applies to all browsers. Hitting bac…

Thanks, jagger27. Touchpad is my priority right now. I'm just a CSS guy :)

With regards to the history, you can update the URL without having the history spam. I believe it's replaceState instead of pushState

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by plaguuuuuu »

dagenleg wrote: post #13

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

The coolest thing ever is when a talk at a conf has the URL for the HTML slide deck, so if you miss something on a prev slide you can go back and check, & you don't need to figure out where/if the slides were published when you want to revisit after the talk.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by jlantunez »

danappelxx wrote: post #51
jlantunez wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think you got it backwards... right now non-tech-savvy people focus on the content with their tooling (PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides). Your tooling introduces a new layer of complexity: now they have to learn HTML and css to do the _exact same thing_. What you built looks great, but you have to reconsider who you're marketing it towards. I can't imagine anybody but a programmer using this. If your goal is to b…

This is the first release of WebSlides. I don't want to build a better Speakerdeck. WebSlides is about telling/sharing engaging stories (css, indexable content...).

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by Vinnl »

viraptor wrote: post #8
jvehent wrote: post #2

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

It's the only one I know of that supports speaker notes. You can actually use it on two screens.

Spectacle does so as well: http://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by Vinnl »

jvehent wrote: post #2

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

When presenting code, Spectacle [1] i.c.w. spectacle-code-slide [2] is pretty sweet, although a bit messy to set up (but that's true for revealjs as well).

[1] http://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/ [2] https://github.com/thejameskyle/spectacle-code-slide

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