[E-Lang] Interim Draft Slides for Pisa Talk

[Mark S. Miller]

At 01:55 PM Monday 5/21/01, Bill Frantz wrote:
>At 12:00 AM -0700 5/18/01, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>>Are at http://www.erights.org/talks/pisa/siframes.htm
>
>MarkM!  Of all people, you are the last one I would expect to write a page
>that requires Javascript to navigate!

Sigh.  I don't know of many decent options for generating web pages from 
powerpoint-ish presentations.  Some ancient version of Powerpoint, which I 
can no longer find an installer for, would generate decent html output.  All
later versions of Powerpoint seems to generate "html" that only IE can 
decipher.  So I've been generating my html-slides using StarOffice's 
powerpoint-ish app.  This has two output options.  Until recently, I've used 
the frameless option, which doesn't use javascript.  This time I used the 
frame-based option, which does use javascript in a seemingly gratuitous 
manner.  As far as I can tell (on *very* casual examination), everything the 
frame-based presentation does could have been done without javascript.

Is this choice a problem?  Should I return to frameless & javascript-less 
pages?  Should I post both forms?  Are there other options for generating 
html from powerpoint-ish slides?


        Cheers,
        --MarkM