Ted, All I get after the redirect is a black screen both on Firefox and Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 11 just refuses to connect at all!
That's progress folks!
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: 25 February 2016 15:29 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Best format(s) to publish old PPT slides to the web
Not Fox, but kinda Fox.
Google has started complaining about some of the older pages on my web site, which are *ancient* (1997, 98, 99) converted PPT files which MS Office helpfully converted into "state of the art" web pages that Google has decided it can no longer parse, and throws what they call "soft 404" pages: framed web pages that internally redirect, or non-standard HTML it will no longer parse.
So, I'd like to open these files up and re-publish them, as a historical archive, not necessarily of any great value. The slides are pretty much curt outlines, where the questions are presented, but the answers were usually at the talk, and hopefully in the associated white paper. So, yeah, mixed feelings. Folks who saw the presentations might grin at seeing the old retro slides with funky themes.
I would like to: -- publish the stuff on my website, so don't bother recommending Slideshare. -- preserve the graphical presentation, ideally in a responsive format (big on big screens, small on small screens) with simple (cursor keys?) and accessible navigation. -- offer a simple alternative view as text outline, likely one not-that-long page. -- valid HTML/CSS/JS of course.
Here's an example: my 1998 presentation on HTML Help was converted by "Internet Assistant for Microsoft PowerPoint 97"
view-source:http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/Dev-14/sld013.htm
and makes pretty atrocious HTML (hey, it was 20 years ago, I did too!)
the "main page" is http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/HTMLHelp.htm but that redirects to
http://www.tedroche.com/Present/1998/HTMLHelp_files/error.htm
with the laughably arrogant error message,
"This presentation contains content that your browser may not be able to show properly. This presentation was optimized for more recent versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer.
If you would like to proceed anyway, click here."
Considering this was generated with PowerPoint 97 and I'm looking at it in Google Chromium 46, you gotta chuckle.
I thought I could do this in LibreOffice, as it has a nice Web export wizard, but I'm getting a bizarre I/O error exporting media. I'll try to debug that Python wizard in parallel, but would welcome suggestions if anyone else has tried to do something like this.
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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