Online presentations go HTML5: SlideShare and Zoho Show
September 28, 2011 | Author: Sandeep Sharma
It seems that the days of Flash as a platform for the Rich web interfaces are really coming to an end. Online presentation services, for which the Rich-interface is most important, are ditching Flash in favour of HTML5. Last year, the market leader, SlideRocket released the HTML5-viewer and today the most popular presentation sharing service SlideShare has done the same. Moreover, SlideShare not just added the HTML5-view option but completely removed the Flash-option. Developers say the new HTML5-viewer is 30% faster and displays presentation on tablets (like iPad) and smartphones. In addition, you can now select and copy text from a presentation with the help of the mouse.
Unlike its rivals, Zoho Show service was originally built on HTML and Ajax. And that's why it reached even more progress in creating presentations on HTML5. Today Zoho has announced the new version Zoho Show 3, which includes impressive editing features for vector and raster graphics and animation support. Moreover, unlike SlideRocket, Zoho Show uses HTML5 not only in the viewer. The presentation editor is also working on HTML5. The new version also allows to collaboratively edit presentations in real time and demonstrate presentations via the Internet in the interactive mode.
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