From: Gerald Bauer <geraldbauer2007@...>
Date: 2008-02-19T03:33:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Slide Show v0.1 - A Free Web Alternative to PowerPoint and KeyNote in Ruby Now Live

Hello Gregory,

> >   Slide show delivers an all-in-one-page handout and a live full
> > screen slide show with thumbnails all at once from a plain standard
> > web page and much more. Comments and questions welcome.
> >
> >    Find out more @ http://slideshow.rubyforge.org
>
> A quick look at the web page indicates that this generates HTML for a
> slideshow. How is this better than S5 <http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/>,
> for example?

    There's no JavaScript required for the HTML thanks to the
FullerScreen Firefox browser addon. There's no CSS acrobatics involved
either and the HTML that gets generated is not just a slideshow but
also an all-in-one handout.  Also note that to author your slides
there's actually no HTML needed because you author your slides in
"standard" textile - in plain text using a wiki-style markup language
that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read.

   Cheers.

-- 
Gerald Bauer -  http://rubybook.wordpress.com