Presentacular, an AJAXian web PowerPoint

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Presentacular, an AJAXian web PowerPoint

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Nov 15th 2005

Or, PowerPoint cloned for the web. The bells, whistles, oh, let's just say the toolset isn't there, but it's a cool proof of concept. Presentacular is a demo of Ajaxian technology used to create a browser-based presentation system. And it tastes just like the (in)famous PPT. Using Eric Meyers' S5, A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System, and a pinch of script.aculo.us magic, Juan Manuel Caicedo has created what could be a great tool for those totally boring PowerPoint presentations. Only now everyone could create them online for free. Just think, instead of a heartfelt missive to your loved ones across the world, you could send them vibrating bullet point of warmness!

Actually, I think this a very cool thing. Hard to find something not to like about Ajax lately. Dale Asberry has the right idea. Can somebody think of a way to add Google maps to this?

[Via Ajaxian]

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rosario said 10:58AM on 11-15-2005

Great!

tpp said 11:25AM on 11-15-2005

That is the best Ajax application, by far, I've seen so far. Incredible!

Thanks for the link. I'm already thinking how we could use this to auto-generate presentation slides on our Intranet.

Ben said 6:08PM on 11-15-2005

Wow! Neat!

Robert Nyman said 5:08PM on 11-24-2005

I prefer AJAX-S then, that is its own product not based on S5, and has a total separation of the presentation and the data in XML.

No effects added yet, but trust me, that's the easiest of things to work. :-)

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