I like the way it looks and works. One slightly weird thing is that on pages with incremental display if you select the text you see white boxes where the text is. This means that they must not be using transparent coloring.
Also in Safari if you click on text it sometimes highlights the text rather than advancing the page. I guess that is fine for copying content off the slide but it makes it is slightly irritating when you want the slide to advance.
Nice. I've always thought HTML was suited for more than just web pages. The browser is a sophisticated and flexible rendering engine sitting at our fingertips. CSS is much simpler than formatting in any office program I know of. I'm glad to see progress in the area of using the browser for other types of content.
I think simple is the wrong word. CSS is flexible but it's also predictable (aside from browser issues). It's powerful but it's also just a text file. It has a learning curve, but once you know it, you can bang out a basic CSS file in minutes. I'm sure some of this applies to Office styles, but there's so much more too them. There's all these dialog boxes and sometimes stuff jumps around when you hover over an option, and all the formatting code itself is obscured so if something breaks, it's harder to diagnose what went wrong. There's no simple textual representation of the whole style all in one place. You can't do anything meaningful in Office styles by typing two lines of text, but you can in CSS. To me, that gives a feeling of simplicity, or perhaps lightness or understandability is a better word.
Not to mention, CSS files will probably outlive Office styles by quite a few years, so there's a sense of permanence which I also find comforting.
Danielstraight and NathanKP / please contact me in the email on my profile (I looked for one in yours) I would like to talk to you about how you learned CSS and what frame work your using or tools to Pump out CSS... thanks, rb
For a moment I got excited that they are proposing a HTML tag to deal with this. It would be cool though to have something which can generate slideshows, animated galleries, and banners.
Also in Safari if you click on text it sometimes highlights the text rather than advancing the page. I guess that is fine for copying content off the slide but it makes it is slightly irritating when you want the slide to advance.