S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
This is great and much better than the ‘save as HTML’ option in PowerPoint[r].
It’s a bit too difficult to simply replace the ease and ubiquty of *.ppt but I could see this being added to applications that export to ppt (eg the mindmapping software NovaMind for the Mac has great export to text, ppt and Keynote: I’m sure that these applications could manage the CSS and bits of javascript that’d just be too tricky for the rest of us – especially while cranking the ppt handle in the run-up to a presentation…
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Sadly we seem to have slipped into the hands of opportunistic extremists on both sides who seem delighted to further their own agendas (either rallying the ‘outrage in the East or protecting the supposed fragile ‘freedom of publishing provocative cartoons’ in the West).
Unfortunately such opportunists have even very recently too often used such rallying against ‘common enemies’ to fueling ignorance and exaggerate offences to devastating effect – Rwanda, former Yugoslavia to name but two.
Whilst the islamic fundamentalist reaction is predictable, the continental newspapers desire to add further insult to the original injury seems depressingly unnecessary and as you comment – juvenile.
The frightening aspect of juveniles and juvenile behaviour is that in Asia (where I am writing from) opportunists have a history of manipulating and exploiting juvenile passion, ignorance and zealotry to terrible effect (the Red Guards in China and the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia). People in this part of the world are frightened of juveniles and juvenile behaviour for good reason.