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[Marc Eberhard <eberhardma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Hannes!

On 13 November 2010 18:42, Hannes Hochreiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I completely agree on your suggestions for improvement. The rendering in
> different browsers can be quite different. Unfortunately, there is little
> that can be done by JessyInk to improve this (other then submitting bugs). I
> check my presentations in


One possibility would be to implement the JessyInk functionality with GWT
and let the magic of Google's wisdom optimise the code for different
browsers. They have many good workarounds for different browsers built into
it. It's on my list of things to try, but I probably won't find time for it
too soon.


> If I understand your suggestion correctly, you would like to have the
> images and fonts copied into a defined location and linked with relative
> paths from the svg file so that you can put all the parts on a web-server
> and have the presentation display correctly. So far I tried to embed as much
> as possible into the svg file, but having images and fonts separately might
> actually be a good idea.
>

Even the JessyInk script could be in a separate file. That would make it
possible to upgrade to a new version of the script without having to open
all presentations in Inkscape again. What I wanted to try for some time is
to write a GWT application that would load the SVG file and display it the
same way as JessyInk does. The advantage would be that the code can be
written in Java and would be automatically optimised for different browsers
by the GWT compiler. You can also implement other functionality easily, like
mixing presentations, hiding some slides, reordering them, etc.

All the best,
Marc
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