AXEL slide show editor (new demo)
Stephane
It's been a while since the last message in this mailing list, but AXEL development is still ongoing even if the community is silent. As I stated in January you can follow some of our progresses on AXEL's git repos : https://github.com/ssire/axel (*)
AXEL has now entered a phase of experimentations. The goal at that moment is to assess different areas of applications for the library, before a forthcoming consolidation phase.
In this respect, there is a new demo available to Safari and Firefox users at:
http://media.epfl.ch/Templates/Latest/contribs/slidemachine3/editor/slidy/editor.xhtml
Please have a look, the best way to discover it is to press the "Play" button at the top left and to let you guide through the demo.
The demo is still under development (we are still fixing some issue with the integration between the timesheet.js library and AXEL). The demo is based on a collaboration with Fabien Cazenave who is developing the extremely powerful timesheet.js library (http://wam.inrialpes.fr/timesheets/) to run multimedia presentations based on SMIL Timing and SMIL Timesheets in the browser. It shows that using these declarative languages to describe multimedia presentations, it becomes possible to create custom editors for specific multimedia document types. The slide show as such is just a kind of multimedia document.
The demo is still under construction as you can see that some of the effects are not yet functional (like progressive apparition of the bullets inside a slide). But I hope is it already convincing.
Any feedback welcome,
Stéphane S.
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(*) in particular the most essential feature requests are regularly update at https://github.com/ssire/axel/issues