Re: [PHP-DOC] Re: [PHP-DEV] Conference Materials Site From: Manuel Lemos (mlemos <email protected>)
Date: 07/20/00

Hello Rasmus,

On 20-Jul-00 14:01:52, you wrote:

>> 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

That is when you own a laptop to install PHP and can hook it to a video
display available in the presentation place. I believe that is your case
because you do a lot of PHP presentations, but once in a while people
including myself are invited to give talks about PHP and not only I don't
have a laptop (too expensive over here and I don't need one for my daily
job) and what is most commonly available on the presentation site is a
video display (PAL/NTSC) that is hooked on a Windows based PC available on
the presentation place.

>installed locally on a laptop. I need PHP to show PHP. The slides could

I understand that you need PHP to demonstrate some PHP capability
interacting with a particular presentation, but maybe you could live
without that in actual presentation. You could simply add a link to a
page outside your presentation where you could demonstrate what you want.
This way you could keep your presentation target format independent.

>be in XML, sure, and I can layer that on top of the existing
>architecture without any problems.

Yes, that would be ideal as it would promote a lot of reuse of each other
materials and simplify tasks like adapting the presentations to new idioms
thus helping spreading PHP faster around the world.

As for the format, you could design a new XML format to suit your
particular presentation needs but I think it would better to investigate
existing formats for the same purpose and eventually cooperate in the
specification of the format with anybody that already has experience like
these guys of PythonPoint.

Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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