HTML Slidy: accessible slide shows with ease

http://www.w3.org/2005/03/slideshow.html

by nym • 17 years ago

17 10 17 years ago

Nice. I've always thought HTML was suited for more than just web pages. The browser is a sophisticated and flexible rendering engine sitting at our fingertips. CSS is much simpler than formatting in any office program I know of. I'm glad to see progress in the area of using the browser for other types of content.

boucher• 17 years ago

If you believe CSS is simple, than Microsoft Office is not for you. I believe that 99.999% of people do not think CSS is simple, self included.

NathanKP2• 17 years ago

I too think that CSS is simple, but I also like to write webpages in a plain text editor rather than Dreamweaver.

I like to have more personal control rather than having to rely on some other program to interpret what I want and write the code for me.

DanielStraight2• 17 years ago

I think simple is the wrong word. CSS is flexible but it's also predictable (aside from browser issues). It's powerful but it's also just a text file. It has a learning curve, but once you know it, you can bang out a basic CSS file in minutes. I'm sure some of this applies to Office styles, but there's so much more too them. There's all these dialog boxes and sometimes stuff jumps around when you hover over an option, and all the formatting code itself is obscured so if something breaks, it's harder to diagnose what went wrong. There's no simple textual representation of the whole style all in one place. You can't do anything meaningful in Office styles by typing two lines of text, but you can in CSS. To me, that gives a feeling of simplicity, or perhaps lightness or understandability is a better word.

Not to mention, CSS files will probably outlive Office styles by quite a few years, so there's a sense of permanence which I also find comforting.

NathanKP2• 17 years ago

I like the way it looks and works. One slightly weird thing is that on pages with incremental display if you select the text you see white boxes where the text is. This means that they must not be using transparent coloring.

Also in Safari if you click on text it sometimes highlights the text rather than advancing the page. I guess that is fine for copying content off the slide but it makes it is slightly irritating when you want the slide to advance.

imok20• 17 years ago

It should be noted that this isn't new, at all. It was published in 2005.

RyanMcGreal• 17 years ago

I've long used Eric Meyer's HTML slide show format:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

jarsj• 17 years ago

For a moment I got excited that they are proposing a HTML tag to deal with this. It would be cool though to have something which can generate slideshows, animated galleries, and banners.

HTML Slidy: accessible slide shows with ease

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