First, thank you to Eric Wilhelm for talking about Text::Slidez at Advanced Topics on Wednesday, and thank you Tony Rick for making arrangements with Roots. There are more chairs and tables and a screen in the back room. Note for those attending the August presentation (I will be out of town), and for presentations in April-August 2010 - we should bring some thin black plastic tarps to tape over some of the windows to keep the sunlight off the screen.
Version 0.7 of WYDIWYS, which I presented at Advanced Topics, is available at http://server-sky.com/wydiwys . I fixed the file inclusion, the first/last button on the last slide, and used jQuery (thanks Joey, others) to process key clicks. It now works with Internet Exploder as well as Firefox/Mozilla. The next step is to tweak the javascript so it sizes images more adaptively, and to incorporate as much of Text::Slidez as I can. Some requests: 1) If anybody here is using Safari(Mac) or Opera(any platform) or Chrome, please read the instructions for the button controls on the WYDIWYS page, then click to the demo presentation and see if all the keyboard buttons work. You will need to enable Javascript, and for the last slide, flash player. If you use some other browser than the above, try that too! 2) I would like to intelligently preload the flash and images into browser cache somehow, while other slides are showing. That will speed up local presentations a little and remote presentations a lot. Suggestions? AJAX for dummies? 3) I have two RF presenters and their clicker codes; I would like to get more. Those will get added to the navigation() function in wydiwys.js . If you have such a clicker, go to: http://sawmac.com/missing/javascript/tutorials/examples/chapter06/events.html AKA: http://snurl.com/nfmkh ... and start pushing buttons and see what codes they make. Note that some buttons have modes, they emit two different character patterns in alternation. 4) On this page (borrowed from Edward Tufte): http://server-sky.com/slides/wydiwys_demo/stalin_D_intro.html The statue of comrade Stalin is saying "Следующий Слайд", which is allegedly Ruski for "next slide". How is that pronounced? It tranliterates as "Sledujuskij Slijd". I would suffer tongue lock if I tried to pronounce it that way ... :-) Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
