HTML5 101 for Content Specialists

November 13, 2012 · by Bruce Lawson

I was honoured to be invited to speak in Cape Town, South Africa, at Content Strategy Forum 2012. My talk was HTML5 101 for Content Specialists.

This is the second talk I've done using an HTML5/ CSS framework rather than Open Office or other proprietary presentation software. This one is called Shower, written by our own Vadim Makeev, and is open source.

My personal perspective on the conference and visiting South Africa is available at Notes on Contents Strategy Forum 2012, Cape Town on my personal blog.

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Martin KadlecTuesday, November 13, 2012 3:29:54 PM
Nice presentation, it's a shame Opera does not support ruby elements yet
QuHnoTuesday, November 13, 2012 3:55:19 PM
impress.js would be a nice presentation framework too, but sadly Opera doesn't seem to support all the things that are needed for that.
Patrick O'ReillyTuesday, November 13, 2012 4:02:57 PM
What?! Not using "Opera Show"
http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html-css-slideshows
Bruce LawsonTuesday, November 13, 2012 4:03:56 PM
Martin - note the word "yet".

QuHno - I prefer Shower, as it's written by a team-mate of mine.
QuHnoTuesday, November 13, 2012 9:13:47 PM
Can you ask your team-mate to add additional dimensions like timing and zooming (rotating, dynamic positioning etc.) to it?

I loathe slide based presentations since my days at the university when I saw the first overhead projector based presentation:
Either they distracted me from listening or the speaker distracted me from reading. A better synthesis, involving our motion and timing senses plus some additional features like zooming in to details would be welcome.

Not to be misunderstood: The content of your presentation was good, but I it would be nice if you could show off some of the great options that modern browser technology offers for presentations, some kind of "bling, bling" that lets me say "I want that too" - especially what the speaker says.

When I am looking at your photo for "beyond tellerrand", I am sure you and your presentations could be the perfect medium to transport it in a different way, such being a positive surprise compared to the slide based, boring (SCNR) presentations of the other speakers. It is not as if all of the listeners are sour looking CFOs who want it "old fashioned", you know
SteveKongWednesday, November 14, 2012 8:49:52 AM
Unfortunately the font spacing is mixed up in Opera on Mac after viewing a couple of Shower slides on http://pepelsbey.github.com/shower/en.htm#UnorderedList .
Yeni SetiawanWednesday, November 14, 2012 8:59:06 AM
That Shower look fabulous, I have to try it!
And Bruce's presentation always look great
Mağruf ÇolakoğluWednesday, November 14, 2012 9:11:21 AM
Bruce LawsonWednesday, November 14, 2012 9:19:17 AM
QuHno,

for me, the problem with 'some kind of "bling, bling"' in a presentation framework is that it means the effects, animations etc distract attention from the content of the slides. I see this all to often when I'm at conferences.

That said, feel free to fork Shower or send Vadim a pull request https://github.com/pepelsbey/shower
muhammet129Monday, December 3, 2012 10:00:31 PM
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