Creating an Opera Show
As I translate my notes into a presentation for my upcoming talk, I was in a quandry on what to use. Sure, I could use OpenOffice Impress and make a PowerPoint-style presentation, but that still isn’t useful if you don’t have OpenOffice and, frankly, I don’t enjoy having to tweak slides. I’ve made PowerPoint/Impress presentations before and I spend more time concentrating on how my presentation looks as opposed to it’s content. Somewhere in the back of my mind I remembered that Opera was touting that it could do HTML-based presentations. A quick google gave me this page.
And I may never touch PowerPoint again.
All Opera did was implement CSS2 properly. CSS2 has a projection media type. So if you are using a projector, it will appear. If you put Opera in fullscreen mode (F11) it will run in projection mode, i.e. follow all the projection directives in the stylesheet. If you follow the link above, it will look like a normal webpage. If you have Opera, choose F11 and you will see the same content (plus some instructions) but presented very, very differently.
The advantage of this is obvious — the source is HTML, which is really one of the most readily-able format to read. Even if you don’t have Opera, you can look at the content with another web browser and get at the content. And content is what I care about — not crazy animated transistions.