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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

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Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js

Overview of this book

Everyone has had to present during their lifetime. We've all spent agonizing hours trying to make those PowerPoint presentations engaging. Well now there is a tool that will make those presentations look like child's play. Impress.js is a powerful library that eases the task of creating presentations with smooth animations without depending on a software tool. You are no longer limited to desktop tools as these presentations run on any supported browser anywhere on the Internet. "Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js" is a quick guide to creating professional presentations using the best aspects of CSS3. It will also guide you through several practical examples which go beyond the conventional slide-based presentations, covering each aspect of the Impress library. From simple presentations to your own personal website this handy practical guide will ensure you get the most out of Impress.JS as quickly as you can. Starting with a simple slide-based presentation we move quickly on adding in sliders, galleries and portfolios to utilize this amazing tool. 3D transitions, rotations, scaling, and transforms are also covered to give your presentations that something extra. The final step is bringing all this together to create a personal website that is viewable on all impress supported browsers. "Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js" gives you the chance to stand out from the competition and engage with audiences in a way you never have before.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Building Impressive Presentations with impress.js
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Issues in designing for mobile devices


Basically, we have to provide an information message to the user in scenarios where the browser doesn't have the support for impress.js functionality. This is handled by the core code inside the library. Handling browser fallback methods and customizations will be discussed in Chapter 6, Troubleshooting.

Providing a fallback message doesn't mean we are done with handling impress.js for mobiles. Effects such as scaling, transforms, and rotations might not work on those devices. Still, the user should be able to read the whole content of the presentation without encountering any issues.

Let's go through some impress.js presentations on mobile devices to figure out the common problems in designing for mobiles.

Scenario 1

The images shown here are taken from a presentation in the demo section of the impress.js github page. Obviously, it is being designed for impress-supported browsers. You can take a look at the presentation at http://johnpolacek.github.com...