Don't get me wrong, this looks incredible and works great, but can someone answer this question for me... "Why?" What's the point of this much 'flashiness' in a slide-based presentation? I feel like this would be more effort than it's worth. If you use something like Keynote on your Mac, you can make some pretty incredible and well done slideshows. I think this could be awesome and useful for some things (non slideshow related), but I think it's a bit 'too much' for a slide-based presentation.
Sometimes when I see all of these fancy JS plugins I feel like people need to be reminded "just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD." But again, this is well done and the author did a fantastic job coding this. I'm not trying to say anything bad on the quality of this, just the practical use.
A good reason for using a non-linear tool such as this, is that you're able to layout your points (slides) on an infinite canvas, and make use of that specific layout to better explain how each point fits into the whole structure.
For example, I've used impress.js to fan out from a central idea along different lines of work, each line being punctuated with different slides. The cool thing is, you can make a virtual overview slide that shows the whole clickable canvas.
I've also used the layout to embed images resulting from intermediate algorithm stages directly inside those stages in the diagram.
Besides that, and the flashiness which is definitely nice to have, your presentations are in an open format that's not locked to a specific vendor. (this is coming from someone with more than 10 years of academic presentations in powerpoint, which I now have trouble re-using due to almost 100% Linux everywhere. LibreOffice Impress 4.1 can display them, but much is lost in the conversion :)
Looks like this can do regular slides too. It's nice to be able to put slides online after your presentation is over, something you can't do with Keynote or Powerpoint.
> but I think it's a bit 'too much' for a slide-based presentation.
I disagree. I used this for 3 presentations by modding the demo app. After downloading, its as simple as writing HTML and CSS to create a presentation. Add a few section tags, then your custom markup+styles, and you're good to go.
For me, writing the HTML and CSS is easy. Maybe that's why I enjoyed using this for my presentations.
Sometimes when I see all of these fancy JS plugins I feel like people need to be reminded "just because you CAN, doesn't mean you SHOULD." But again, this is well done and the author did a fantastic job coding this. I'm not trying to say anything bad on the quality of this, just the practical use.