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Re: [PLUG] Fred Stluka's giving a talk on Cloud Computing Mon 11/16 7-9pm...
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Fred Stluka wrote:
> Lee,
>
> Thanks! I may take a look. I didn't go looking for such a package
> because I knew I could do a good job of it over the course of a
> single weekend. I tend to do things myself, without looking for
> pre-existing solutions, if they are easy and obvious. In this case,
> I spent much more time writing the content of the talk than I did
> writing the software. Amazing how easy it is to surpass decades
> of Microsoft development, when you have free and open source tools
> and open standards to work with, eh? In this case I just built on
> the open DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript standards, and didn't even have
> to re-use any code except my own pre-existing open source JavaScript
> and Ajax libraries.
>
> Before I bother going to check, is there anything you know of that
> these packages do that mine doesn't? Thanks!
> --Fred
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com -- http://bristle.com/~fred/
> Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Fred,
Thanks again for the Cloud talk, but since you specifically were
describing your new
slide system I thought others would like to know about very similar
programs that
have been out for a few years for comparison. Any of them are better
than Ms PP.
I'm a Infrastucture consultant, and I tend to look for existing
libraries or packages before
writing something, so that's how I stumbled into these programs when I
was assembling
a talk. Just a different style of doing things....
While I haven't used your slideshow the things that come to mind in S5
reloaded are:
- Reliable switching to next slide ( click anywhere except a link )
- Optional Incremental display of bullet points, either individually,
or at the section1 level
- Optional incremental display of multiple images.
- Optional transition ( fade ) between slides.
- Navigation buttons at bottom of screen ( when you hover over them )
- Index list of all slides, when you hover.
- Repeating or single shot music ( I think you do single ), volume
control on menu.
- Display slide notes and timer on 2nd display
- Print slides as one page ( I think you had this feature )
- Automatic timed slide advance
- Numerous themes
- Online documentation and tutorials/samples
- Wiki input text mode ( in S9 )
BTW, I'm not trying to knock your software, just that the open source
way may be to try and
collaborate rather than writing yet another XHTML slide show system when
there are
so many already out there.
Lee
>
> Lee Marzke wrote:
>> fred@bristle.com wrote:
>>
>>> PLUG members, Cloud Computing fans, and Local Friends of Fred,
>>>
>>> Havong trouble getting to the next slide in my slideshow?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Fred, there are something like 40+ slide show systems published, so I'm
>> trying to understand
>> what your new HTML slide system has over the others:
>>
>> List of slide show systems: http://www.miwie.org/presentations/html/
>>
>>
>> S5 seems popular, and it also includes incremental bullet points:
>>
>> S5: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
>> S5 examples: http://4aero.com/static/talks/PLUG_bacula/
>>
>>
>> There is also an updated version called S5 Reloaded:
>>
>> S5 Reload: http://www.netzgesta.de/S5/
>> Samples: http://4aero.com/static/talks/PLUG_perforce/
>>
>> There is a new version now called S9 for Ruby fans that uses Wiki markup.
>>
>> http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/
>>
>>
>> Lee
>>
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