Wednesday, November 2, 2011

HTML5 Web Decks Say Bye to Microsoft Powerpoint and Keynote

I believe because of launch of HTML5 and its wide spread the era of using desktop presentation software like Powerpoint and Keynote will soon be over.Web-based slides make a lot of sense, especially for those comfortable writing code. They’re just web sites, so no special software is needed to view them. They’re built with code: HTML, CSS, and JS.

HTML5 and CSS3 Slides

Starting in 2010, HTML5 and CSS3 were clearly becoming the Next Big Thing on the Web. Google’s Chrome team launched HTML5 Rocks*, an all-encompassing resource for HTML5 technologies. One of the most eye-catching parts of the site is a fully HTML5 slide deck about (what else?) HTML5. Breaking from the reliance on JavaScript in Slidedown and ShowOff, Google opted to use CSS3 to accomplish effects that were once cumbersome to implement in the browser. Maximizing the potential of modern browsers, this was clearly the way forward.

In May 2010, Adam Zaptletal released Landslide, an HTML5 slide deck generator that borrowed heavily from Google’s original HTML5 Rocks presentation.

But Google wasn’t done. Last month at their annual developer conference, Google I/O, all presentations by the Chrome team used an I/O-themed HTML5 slide deck. While not yet formally announced, Google has actually released the slide template as an open source project, called htm5slides on Google Code. Googlers Eric Bidelman and Arne Roomann-Kurrik went a step further for their HTML5 Wow presentation, and released that code as its own open source project. HTML5 Wow features bleeding-edge stuff, like WebGL and the File API.

Mozilla has been getting in on the fun as well. Technical Evangelist Paul Rouget recently released DZSlides, with the accompanying slide show HTML5 in the Wild. DZSlides enforces almost no theming, and importantly, includes support for embedding slide decks. Presenters know that the ability to embed their slide deck through Slideshare is a major reason to stick with traditional formats like .ppt, .keynote, or .pdf. DZSlides is a pure HTML5 solution that replaces Slideshare’s Flash embed. It should be noted that as of this writing, DZSlides doesn’t render correctly in the latest Webkit-based browsers. The latest Firefox and Aurora builds do support the correct behavior.

Check out the Product Google Presentation its extension of HTML5 Slides.


Resources : http://luigimontanez.com/2011/web-based-slide-decks-done-right/

1 comment:

  1. this is gr8 man.., seems like geeks way of doing presentation....

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