Hi Allen, It really sounds like you are looking for an alternative (albeit stripped down) version of webex. Some Googling brought this up:
http://dimdim.com/ Can't speak for it and can't even say I made it past the first page, but from the description it sounds promising. And free. Let us know how you make out solving this problem. Tom http://www.liphp.org On 10/31/06, Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allen Shaw wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > > > Yes, I had seen S5 before and thought it a pretty nifty setup. But does > > it allow the operator to control page-advance in real time? The idea is > > that if you're having a meeting with one or more remote viewers, you > > could discuss by phone while showing them one slide at a time, at your > > discretion. > > > The nice thing about AJAX is the first "A", "Asynchronous". > > How much trouble would we cause if a page's onload event called an AJAX > function called "getNextSlide()". Upon receiving the request, the > server could sleep until a new slide is loaded (or sleep for 2 seconds > and check, sleep for 2 seconds and check, etc.). > > Once a new slide is loaded the server finally sends a slide back to the > browser. The AJAX on the browser activates the slide and then calls > getNextSlide() again, re-starting the loop. > > As always, the balance is between responsiveness and drag. You can get > away with this for a few users, but having a lot of open connections > checking something over and over will die fast at high volume. > > > > > - Allen > > > > Christopher R. Merlo wrote: > > > > > >> I once saw a very nice slide show presented using S5: > >> http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ > >> -c > >> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > > > > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
