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Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.

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Re: Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.

#61
This is pretty awesome! Love the design, the docs in particular. We've been building something similar at slidereach - http://slidereach.com but the focus is on import from ppt/keynote/pdf rather than a markup-based presentation. Is this a more preferred route?

Re: Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.

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The scrolling of the docs is definitely interesting, with URL fragments changing continuously along with small page effects, but I think the bugs may outweigh the features... For instance, clicking anywhere on the scroll wheel causes the fragments to cycle through. The URL bar goes a bit crazy. Quick scrolling also lags because of this. The back button causes the same effect. Perhaps there is a way to fix all this. B…

I couldn't reproduce these either in the latest Safari.

neither could I, but it's there in chrome

Re: Deck.js: A JavaScript library for building modern HTML presentations.

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This looks beautiful, and I'm definitely in love with the idea of writing presentations in HTML/JS/CSS rather than in a blob of Keynote or Powerpoint, but there's one thing keeping me back: Keynote gives me a second display with a timer, the current and next slides, and notes. That's huge. On the rare occasion that I present I don't script out everything I'm going to say, and the presenter info keeps me from rambling…

I'm working on it: http://github.com/seppo0010/deck.remote.js
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