Ben Scott wrote: > On 10/14/07, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> He'd replaced the MagicPoint presentation with S5, and had a few >> technical issues with getting it to behave, but persevered. > > This turned out to mostly be the alternate theme I picked, which > apparently is buggy. Switching back to the stock S5 theme fixed most > of my problems (after I got home). > > I then went in and tweaked the stock S5 files to fix my other > problems. I removed the image that was colliding with my technical > text (the original reason I switched themes). I also modified the > JavaScript to *not* advance on mouse-click, so I can use the mouse to > highlight things during the presentation. Isn't open source > wonderful? :-) > > I also took the opportunity to tweak the content. Every time I give > this presentation, I learn of things I could improve, and make > changes. Sometimes, the changes even turn out to be improvements. > ;-) > > Finally, I have uploaded the changed/improved slides to the GNHLUG > web site (the "2007" file): > >> http://wiki.gnhlug.org/twiki2/bin/view/Www/PresentDNS >
I took a look at the slides, because I know you had some troubles with the way the layout looked and behaved, and I felt bad for recommending S5 if it gave you so much trouble, and I think I found the source of some of those problems: the main slide file has to be XHTML 1.0 Strict, which is really, really finicky about how things work. Tags have to be lower-case, all opened tags have to be closed, etc. Not too bad if your writing a system to generate code, but a pain in the neck in a situation like this where you're likely to write the file by hand in a text editor (or porting it from MagicPoint file format) So, instead of: <p>Main heading: <ul> <li>List item one <ul> <li>Sub list item one <li>Sub list item one </ul> <li>List item two </ul> You have to have: <p>Main heading:</p> <ul> <li>List item one <ul> <li>Sub list item one</li> <li>Sub list item one</li> </ul></li> <!-- Note that this closes List Item One above, making the second list subsidiary to the first list item --> <li>List item two</li> </ul> (I *think* I got this right...) It's a pain in the neck to get code this way, and I use http://validator.w3.org to tell my when I've finally dotted every I and crossed every T, er, t. I did a quick run-though of the HTML file you supplied, and posted an update to the board. You may find it displays a little better. Hope this helps you the next time you give the presentation. Charlie, when are you going to have Ben back for Part II? I'm looking forward to it! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/