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While a very cool library, it will only be really useful once we get some content creation tools for it.

You don't need special tools to create cool stuff with it; the presentation itself works as an example of how easy is to use it: https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/blob/master/index.html

While technically true, it isn't going to be easy to produce a general presentation for that code. There are a number of hardcoded x/y cords and specialized css classes ("have you noticed it's in")

What I'd love to see is a way for me to write relatively vanilla HTML, possibly run it through a parser (in a perfect world, I would just annotate it with css classes) and out comes a sexy presentation. Or maybe a wysiwyg UI, like how Prezi's interface works.

Probably it's not stated clear enough (it's a very early release and I wasn't expecting such a buzz around it) that impress.js is meant to be responsible only of positioning the step elements (based on data attributes) and animating between them.

Anything that is on a step is custom HTML and CSS and author is expected to write it. Stylesheet given is not meant to be a part of a library - it's just a demo.

I know that it narrows the target users to people knowing HTML and CSS (on a quite good level) but it's just an experiment and a tool I use. If anyone finds it nice and helpful that's great. If not - it's not my fault.

But for sure some detailed docs for impress.js are needed and I hope to write them soon.

I would pay for this tool to take in something like MultiMarkdown and spit out a presentation.

It could work with some custom markdown tags like First sl[[i](transition=leftrotate target=second slide)]de

Personally, I dont have a presentation which I cant express through markdown.

Hey, I just hacked a proof of concept of a gui position&rotation&scale editor. You can take a look here: http://naugtur.github.com/

Right, but many good presentations are mostly pictures. The Yoda picture in this demo turns out to encoded in the html in an ugly way. There definitely needs to be a tool that lets the writer work at a higher level than that.

It's HTML, you can put any image or video you want.

Yoda is "hardcoded" because it's just a demo.

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