I’m now embedding S5 in an IFrame and it works great!

Thanks again, and never give up that Opera Support!!!!

I used this afternoon to code a little bit around in the slides.js.

I’ve got two ideas:
1) allow direkt links from outside
and
2) show presentations in a loop.

As an output I post my sourcecode-snippets into your feedback-system. I hope, you dont mind, that I copy it here. They are tested on version S5.1 with Firefox 1.04 under Linux.

1) ALLOW DIRECT LINKS FROM OUTSIDE
———————————-
To allow a direct link from outside to a specific slide,
I recommend to use the usual parameters behind the URL-name,
i.e. s5-demo.html?3
This example presents slide3 in the browser.

HOWTO:
You can simply add the following javascript function to slide.js:

function getParameter()
{
var url = window.location.href;
parameter = url.split("?");
return parameter[1];
}

This function has to be called in the last row of startup()

function startup()
{
...
goTo(getParameter());
}


2) SLIDE-LOOPS controlled by the variable “loop”
———————————————-
Endless slide-loops are importent i.e. on fares,
where a endless presentation is going on while the crowd walks by

HOWTO:
Two new global variables are needed:

var loop = true;
var loop_timeout =10000; // im miliseconds

Then add the following javascript function to slide.js:

function nextSlide()
{
var target = snum + 1;
if (target >= smax) target = 0;
var url = window.location.href;
parameter = url.split("?");
document.location.href = parameter[0] + "?" + target;
}

This function has to be called in:
- the startup(), to be used by slide0
- the last row of go(), to be used by all other slides

function startup()
{
...
if (loop) setTimeout('nextSlide()', loop_timeout);
goTo(getParameter());
}

function go()
{
...
if (loop) setTimeout('nextSlide()', loop_timeout);
}

TODO
—-
- The variables should be controlled by the user!
- The user-interaction-menu didn’t work when loop=true.
- The loop didn’t show the sub-steps

If you like it, please let me know
Thanks

I am a Civil Servant working on developing Intranet solutions for a Governmental Department in the United Kingdom. Having just sat through a talk on accessibility from one of our Information Architect guys and listened to the usual “MS Power Point is bad, avoid like the plague” mantra it suddenly dawned on me that dropping Power Point (wherever possible) and adopting S5 within the department could be a real winner. Not only is it standards based (see my blog for my continued struggles and frustrations in this area) it is of course fully accessible as well, whereas MS Power Point is dubious (not to mention bloated) to say the least in this respect.

Utilising our Content Management System (Stellent, for anyone who is interested) we would also be able to create CSS that would allow us to control branding applied to S5 presentations, meaning more consistency and in the end, more professional looking and convincing presentations than the garish, gimmicky and bloated presentations currently being created by our diverse bunch of publishers at present, using MS Power Point.

The downside is because all publishing to our Intranet has to go through the Content Management System (which basically means all documents have to be styled up MS Word docs) there will be more work than usual in adopting this system (wrapping the Div tags and appropriate classes around the content), but I’m positive about the eventual outcome.

Just wondered if anyone has any similar experience or advice in adopting S5 in this manner.

Keep up the good work Eric.

I respect the work you’ve put into S5 and if I can find the time, I will contribute some Opera-friendly fixes (perhaps with a little help from my friends..). Thanks for the challenge :)

Anyway, when I first opened the demo presentation on Konq, I got mostly unstyled text. I then hit F5 to reload, and lo! style! :) I don’t know why it didn’t work the first time. Maybe konq has something odd about applying styles if they take too long to load (wild speculation). However, when it does display, one thing doesn’t work: you can’t click on the page to make it go to the next. You can press enter, mouse to the bottom-right, whatever. Just not click.

I just played a little more: if I reload, it goes back to the unstyled (printable?) text, with the toggle link at the top-right, however I can’t click it for it disappears as soon as the mouse gets there. If I select the URI in the address bar and press return to force a load from the cache, it comes up in presentation form happily.

The toggle thing doesn’t disappear if I get to the unstyled format by clicking on the link in the slideshow itself, then it toggles just as you would expect.

Just some hopefully useful information.

Followup for Boris and anyone else interested: Bugzilla #303313.

Lars: I don’t have Konqueror to test, so I don’t know why it fails by default but works if identified as Safari. As with Opera, I’m willing to accept contributions that make S5 work in Konqueror as long as they don’t degrade other browsers and are relatively easy to maintain.