[thelist] Slide show with html text

Tue Oct 14 15:06:35 CDT 2003

Jono

here are some tutorials for smil at real.com


http://www.realnetworks.com/resources/samples/smil.html
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/realone/ProductionGuide/HTML/realpgd.htm?page=htmfiles/animate.htm%23221292

alam

 Young wrote:

>Is SMIL compatible with NS 4.7 and IE 5 and up?  Were can I find more info
>on SMIL?  What does SMIL stand for?  Any links for a How To Article?
>
>Thanks,
>
>On 10/12/03 4:31 PM, "Javed Alam" <jalam at cc.ysu.edu> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi
>>
>>If you are adventrous and you want to do a MS Powerpoint free slide show
>>try
>>
>>http://titanium.dstc.edu.au/xml/jacksvg/
>>
>>You can also embed sound using the sound namespace from ADOBE. I did a
>>presentation using this program with embedded sound created using a TTS.
>>
>>A sample is at 
>>
>>    
>>
>http://www.eng.ysu.edu/~jalam/summer_institute_03/presentation/presentation.
>sv> g
>  
>
>>To view it you will need IE with adobe svg plugin. Also advance first
>>two slides with no sound and advance slides after end of each sound
>>presentation associated with the slide.
>>
>>regards J
>>
>>
>>Raditha Dissanayake wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>May i point you towards SMIL? It's a w3 standard, it's designed for
>>>slide shows. It's been sitting on the back burners for a while but
>>>it's making a comeback. most notably on mobile phones where it's used
>>>in MMS but it's origin is pretty much in the web.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Jono Young wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I need to make a slide show - containing 3 images with html text
>>>>captions -
>>>>with an image at the top, and a caption below each image.  I would
>>>>like to
>>>>pause the slide show for 9 seconds on each image and caption.  I know
>>>>that
>>>>Javascript is the way to go, I am just not sure how to pull it off.
>>>>I have
>>>>successfully created a similar slide show using a graphic for the
>>>>caption
>>>>using the code below:
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>><script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
>>>>>
>>>>>var isNS = navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape")  != -1
>>>>>var isIE = navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft") != -1
>>>>>function show() {
>>>>> if (isNS) document.layers["d1"].visibility = "show";
>>>>> if (isIE) document.all.d1.style.visibility = "visible";
>>>>>}
>>>>>function hide() {
>>>>> if (isNS) document.layers["d1"].visibility = "hide";
>>>>> if (isIE) document.all.d1.style.visibility = "hidden";
>>>>>}
>>>>>
>>>>>var image1=new Image(); image1.src="images/slide1.jpg";
>>>>>var image2=new Image(); image2.src="images/slide2.jpg";
>>>>>var image3=new Image(); image3.src="images/slide3.jpg";
>>>>>var image4=new Image(); image4.src="images/slide4.jpg";
>>>>>var text1=new Image(); text1.src="images/slide1aol_quote.gif";
>>>>>var text2=new Image(); text2.src="images/slide2aol_quote.gif";
>>>>>var text3=new Image(); text3.src="images/slide3aol_quote.gif";
>>>>>var text4=new Image(); text4.src="images/slide4aol_quote.gif";
>>>>>var step=1;
>>>>>var slide=1;
>>>>>var text=1;
>>>>>
>>>>>               function slideit() {
>>>>>   if (!document.images) {
>>>>>       return;
>>>>>   }
>>>>>      document.images.slide.src=eval("image"+step+".src");
>>>>>   document.images.text.src=eval("text"+step+".src");
>>>>>      if (step<4) {
>>>>>       step++;
>>>>>   } else {
>>>>>       step=1;
>>>>>   }
>>>>>   setTimeout("slideit()",5000)
>>>>>}
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>></script>
>>>>>
>>>>><body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"
>>>>>onload="slideit();" background="images/bg_1.gif">
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Then, in the page¹s html code, I put name="slide" on the JPG slideshow
>>>>image, and name="text" on the slideshow¹s GIF text image, and the images
>>>>rotated.  Can I do something similar to this, but use html text
>>>>instead of a
>>>>GIF for the slideshow¹s caption?  Hopefully I am being clear enough
>>>>here, I
>>>>an pretty new to this.  Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>  
>


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