[PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] Conference Materials Site From: Rasmus Lerdorf (rasmus <email protected>)
Date: 07/20/00

> This is an excelent idea, but wouldn't it be better if the presentations
> could be developed from a target media independent specification format and
> then be generated in different presentation formats: static HTML, PDF,
> Shockwave Flash, SVG, SMIL, etc..
>
> I think this would help more to reuse these materials to make presentations
> to promote PHP, since not everybody can have access a PHP enable remote
> server via a network to show in a live presentation and presentations can
> also be copied and browsed by users that don't even know how to set

You don't need remote access. Just a web server, PHP and a browser
installed locally on a laptop. I need PHP to show PHP. The slides could
be in XML, sure, and I can layer that on top of the existing
architecture without any problems.

-Rasmus