Christian Heilmann, one of the most persuasive of Mozilla’s evangelists for HTML5 wrote a blog post titled “Why I don’t write my slides in HTML.” It’s a good read. In it he provided a list of places where he sees HTML slide tools falling short. These days, Christian spends much of his life giving presentations on HTML so slide tool developers who ignore those points do so at their peril.
I’ve remixed Christian’s list and used it as a scorecard and feature checklist to guide further development of Simple HTML Slides. If it’s possible to satisfy all (or at least most) of those requirements then I can be confident that Simple HTML Slides are actually useful in the real world of hard core presenters.
Check out the Simple HTML Slides Project Page to see a working presentation that has a slide with video on it, all embedded in a WordPress post.
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Just wanted to say that Simple HTML Slides is a wonderful resource. Many thanks. Its very simple to understand and easy to use.
I wonder if you could give some pointers on how to integrate events to sync with a video or audio file. If so would it be possible to include another slide template in Simple HTML Slides, where that could be done.
In any event, this is great work.
samar
The project WebODF can load OpenDocument Presentation files (ODF with extension .odp). You can find WebODF at http://webodf.org/
I’ve thought it would be great intern project to come up with a XSLT/python converter to take a DOCX or Keynote file and make it a web presentation. Should be fairly easy with canvas and such and at least for Keynote the file format is very well documented…