SPUG: From non-PowerPoint to PowerPoint

[Allison Randal]

Ron Pero wrote:
> It's an intriguing and tempting thought -- for me. However, the 
> presenters -- doctors in this case -- want to be elegant and change 
> slides by clicking a remote control, rather than clicking a mouse on a 
> "Next Slide" link.
> 
> Can this be done in html/browser?

See S5:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/

and particularly the "introductory slide show":

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/s5-intro.html

Arrow keys control slide changes (many remote controls are configured to 
simulate arrow keys, because many slideshow systems use them for 
navigation.)

There are even Perl modules to generate S5 from Pod or Wiki format if 
you prefer them to the HTML S5 format (which is quite ugly):

http://search.cpan.org/~tlinden/Pod-S5-0.08/
http://search.cpan.org/~gugod/Spork-S5-0.05/

Allison