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Enhance your next presentation with HTML5

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Although it didn't warrant a clickable image in this post, reveal.js is a very well-designed and actively-developed framework.

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js

Didn't realize there were so many HTML5 presentation frameworks out there..

Shameless plug: I've created a GUI for creating ImpressJS presentations: https://github.com/tantaman/Strut

I'll have to look into adding support for the ones in this article.

NM - I didn't see the link to the zip on the main git page... the link to the same page in the Youtube comments was broken...

what i really miss in most (all ?) of these frameworks is an embedded markup language (markdown or variants), so that one does not have to bother with html in order to create lists, fonts, tables etc.

In my own "sttp" tool, most of the javascript is exactly for this purpose - the slide deck is just the content of a textarea and is almost readable even without formatting.

For styles, i use braces and css styles e.g. {style1 style2 style3,some text} which has the compactness of latex and the flexibility of css.

Reveal.js, at least, supports inline markdown blocks. https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#markdown

I made a gem that turns markdown files into impress.js presentations: https://github.com/egonschiele/mdpress

And here I am just now getting decent at beamer. :( I wonder if it is possible to compile a beamer presentation to html5 easily. Fun side project, at any rate.

Use Pandoc! It takes normal Markdown and can create a beamer or fancy HTML presentation from it automatically. Or, if the HTML presentation frameworks it supports aren't to your liking, just create a quick template that spits out something compatible with your favorite framework.

shameless plug 2: i used deck.js for my lecture slides (www.webtech.org.uk)

Same here, and I plan to use it for my next technical presentation on Ruby DSLs.

Example: http://thirdtruck.org/everyday

On a tangential note, _that_ is a nice presentation. I definitely feel inspired to do a lot more with Ruby than I get a chance to do at work. Thanks!

Exactly the outcome I had in mind, raju. Thanks!

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