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Shower - nice cross browser presentation template (pepelsbey.github.com)
83 points by mars on July 17, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 27 comments


Visited this from today's most popular mobile presentation device, the iPad, and what I assume is the first slide might as well have been a single static JPEG.

I see from comments here the template requires keyboard control. Too bad it can't be controlled with gestures.


If you take a look at the javascript, there's an event handler that looks at different keycodes and assigns them to actions. PageUp, PageDown, Up, Down, Left, Right, j, and k are all assigned. It should be simple to attach handlers for mouse and gesture events too, and just call the same actions.


This is similar to the google io slides template: http://code.google.com/p/html5slides/ and demo: http://html5slides.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/template/index.h...

The html5slides supports some nice animation options.


Took me a while to figure out that it's only keyboard controlled.

How about mouse input, or at least some "please use a keyboard" thing?


Looks very nice. It's a shame that the project doesn't have an explicit license attached to it (which means that I can't use it anywhere without getting permission from the author).


Very nice, as someone who codes HTML all the time this is far preferable to opening up some obscure presentation software that I use maybe once or twice a year. From a comfort prospective this is what I'll be using from now on cause It feels familiar.


Very cool, but i really do like my back button and would appriciate it if i could use it.


Just a tip, hit esc to go to a very nice multiple slide view.


Any idea what to do on an iPad? I'm stuck on the hipster typewriter image.


If you're interested in that image: http://fiftyfootshadows.net


didnt try it on the ipad yet. doesn't it work correctly?


Same issue on iPhone: just seeing the first slide I assume (the typewriter), and tapping on it or outside does nothing.


ah well, just read the readme. mobile webkit support is on the roadmap.


Does Apple license its UI textures for use in things like this? (I'm thinking of the gray background texture from the iPad when you hit ESC to view the slide list).


1) Does a gray linen cloth background tile qualify for copyright protection?

2) This is not the exact same image as the iPad background; I looked at them side by side. They're both dark gray linen cloth, but not the same. How would Apple know this one was derived from the iPad's image and not from some other photo of linen cloth?


This would be even more fantastic if it could generate slides from something like Markdown instead of having you write HTML manually.


Sounds like you have your weekend project.


I thought that too before I spent some time with a Markdown based presentation like Landslide:

https://github.com/adamzap/landslide

I found myself needing to "drop down" into HTML quite often as my slides were more complex then just the simple bullet point lists.

Markdown just didn't have the expressiveness I needed for a presentation. Markdown would be fine for a say a word document but there is more need for complex layout in a good presentation sometimes.


Inline HTML is a part of the Markdown syntax though: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#html

So you can use Markdown for most of the content, and HTML when you need more complex layout control.


You're right it does and that's what I use. But something doesn't feel right when over half my slides are using that particular feature.


I use Slidedown[1] for that. It has some wrinkles, but overall I find it does what I need it to do with very little hassle.

[1] https://github.com/nakajima/slidedown


https://github.com/bracki/showoff is what you want; maybe it's possible to move the theme to showoff?


Just curious, but why link to that fork rather than the creator's main branch[1]? (I'm genuinely curious: maybe ownership has changed?)

[1] https://github.com/schacon/showoff


Sorry I was just lazy.. :) Thanks for the actual link.


you might be interested at using Jekyll for that purpose; http://github.com/mojombo/jekyll


I use it already for generating websites, but I haven't seen a plugin for it that makes it easy to generate slides like these.


Looks good!

Thank you.




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