Presentation/slideshow apps (was: ... DNS and BIND)

[David J Berube]

You could try tidy; it does a great job of making nasty HTML less nasty.

http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

Take it easy,

David Berube
Berube Consulting
djberube at berubeconsulting.com
(603)-485-9622
http://www.berubeconsulting.com/

Ben Scott wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>> So, is there a better way to author S5 than being really, really careful
>> while writing XHTML by hand and using an XHTML validator a lot?
> 
>   I actually don't think S5 is as picky as Ted says, although that may
> depend on browser, complexity of your markup, specific XHTML abuses
> perpetrated, phase of the moon, etc.
> 
>   In the past, I've used MagicPoint (MGP)
> (http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/) for presentation slides.  MGP is
> nice because simple slides use extremely simple markup.  It's similar
> in concept to wiki markup -- old-fashioned, plain-text conventions
> adapted into a markup language.  I still like a lot of it.
> 
>   But MGP has issues, too.  You need to have the MGP software
> installed to render the slideshow, and it's X11-only.  It doesn't
> always handle text resizing well or easily.  Some markup is rather
> cumbersome (like changing the font in-line, something I do a lot).
> More advanced tricks are often just not possible.  Image
> resizing/zooming isn't supported (AFAIK).  HTML can be produced from
> an MGP, but it's a separate file.  Jumping between slides requires you
> to know the slide number.
> 
>   S5 (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/) is attractive because it's
> all HTML, so just about any web browser (even Lynx) can at least view
> the slides "as is".  JavaScript and CSS enable the super-slick
> slide-show presentation.  Firefox already supports on-the-fly text and
> image resizing.  S5 gives you a nifty pick-list with slide titles for
> jumping.  Just about any HTML/CSS/browser feature can be used, which
> makes it a lot more capable than MGP.  For example, not only can I
> more easily change the font in-line with a SPAN block, I can also put
> a box around it and change the background color.
> 
>   The major drawback to S5 is also that it's all HTML.  :)  While HTML
> can be made fairly simple, it still isn't as uncluttered as
> MagicPoint's markup.  You get sometimes have to worry about browser
> idiosyncrasies and JavaScript glitches.  But still, I think S5 wins
> over MGP.
> 
>   If you actually *want* a WYSIWYG GUI, well, I can't help you there,
> sorry.  Real men use text editors for everything.  ;-)
> 
>> ... PowerPoint on Mac OSX ...
> 
>  FWIW, I've heard good things OpenOffice.org Impress, and it
> supposedly runs on MacOS X if you have X11 installed.
> 
> -- Ben
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