Re: HTML5 presentations

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:

> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> writes:
>
>> On 6/7/11 Jun 7 -3:01 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
>>> Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> After the recent org-mode to S5 discussion, I stumbled onto
>>>> [these](https://gist.github.com/509761) code.  It offers a way to
>>>> export org files to HTML5 presentations.  I think it looks quite nice.
>>>>  I see it being better than S5 in that no "ui" folder is required.
>>>> What do you all think?  Is it worthy of being incorporated into
>>>> org-mode?
>>> 
>>> Just tried it, and it's pretty cool!  Easy to use and nicely looking.
>>> 
>>> Bye,
>>> Tassilo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>
>> I have tried the version here:
>> https://github.com/twada/org-html5presentation.el
>>
>> and it does not seem to be ready for prime-time.  Org-babel features
>> don't work, and there seems to be not a clear integration with the
>> org-export-preprocessor.  See my two issues, one (not satisfactorily)
>> closed, one open.
>>
>> Possibly this should be folded into contrib, so that people could
>> cooperate on it more easily than when it lives off in a separate git
>> repo, but it shouldn't be enabled for the unwary until it's been
>> thoroughly exercised.
>>
>> Is there a "tries to use all features" org presentation somewhere that
>> would serve as a good acid test for an export facility?  It would be
>> very handy to have that.
>>
>
> This export target seems to re-implement much of the org HTML export
> mechanics which is most likely the reason for the incomplete coverage of
> Org's large functionality.
>
> Perhaps it would be possible to change this so that it works more like
> org-s5, that is, so that it firsts exports using the existing html
> export functionality, and then simply manipulates the resulting html.
>

I haven't looked at or tried either org-s5 or the html5 presentations. 

I would like to note that much of the refactoring of the html exporter
is already done and is ready for prime time. I would very much like to
see that my code be used for such experimentations.

I will only note that the only way Free Software can thrive is by
adopting an "embrace and extend" approach.

Jambunathan K.


> Best -- Eric

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