Presentations in the browser? No problems.

Today it is difficult to find a person who at least once in his life did not create a presentation on a computer. There are many people for whom this is a normal daily activity. As a rule, the Microsoft PowerPoint package included in the office application package is used for these purposes. And everything would be fine, but to use this software, you need to buy it (please do not laugh). True, there is an option to use the free analogue of OpenOffice.org, but not all presentations created in MS Office are correctly displayed in OOo and vice versa. Meanwhile, there is another way - to create presentations directly in the browser. For these purposes, standard technologies are used - HTML and CSS, which simplifies the work of people who are at least a little familiar with web development.



True, there is one problem here: at the moment, full support for such technology is available only in Opera (for Firefox there is an extension that, however, works very unstable), while Safari and Internet Explorer do not even plan to introduce an interesting technology. However, the Opera browser works in all operating systems, which allows minimizing all the costs of preparing presentation software - the browser is free, and the installation package is very small in size.

Among other advantages: ease of creation and adjustment, small size of the presentation, versatility (even if you do not have Opera browser at hand, you can see the contents of the presentation in any browser). I can say that absolutely all the presentations of Opera representatives who made presentations at university meetings or barcamps were made using Opera Show.

A detailed description of the technology and how to use it is published by Chris Mills on dev.opera.com.