[thelist] Slide show with html text
Peter Smulders
schmolle at pobox.com
Tue Oct 14 16:50:55 CDT 2003
Hi Jono,
> 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.
With some amazement I have read the suggestions of other people for this
problem (which included downloading an obscure language actually meant
for proprietary hardware and an utterly different platform).
Unless I have completely missed the point, will the HTML below not do
the trick? It will work in even the oldest of browsers, no dependancies
whatshowever.
---cut here----
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="9; url=slide2.html">
</head>
</body>
<img src="img1.gif">
<p>Text for image 1</p>
</body>
</html>
---cut here---
Note that this is the HTML (without any sort of niceties) for
slide1.html, refering to slide2.html as the next one. Obviously set the
last one in the sequence to have the first one as the 'url' in the
'meta' tag.
For four slides (or even up to a dozen), hand coding, copying and a bit
of editing is feasible. If you need more than this, then automatically
generating the pages is no big deal either.
If you want different speeds, you could maintain two parallel sequences,
such as Slide1-9secs.html, Slide1-3secs.html, Slide2-9secs.html,
Slide2-3secs.html, etc, and link from the one to the other.
If have done this to create an auto-generated slide show in pure HTML
using a Cygwin bash script. (proving it can be done and yes, I would be
happy to send it to you)
Hope that helps,
Schmolle
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