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[nycphp-talk] [OT] live slide-show delivery via browser only

Jon Baer jonbaer at jonbaer.com
Tue Oct 31 14:43:23 EST 2006


I think the scientific term is called "webinar" :-)

https://www.gotowebinar.com
http://www.campfirenow.com

Campfire is interesting in that you can post images/slides to the  
group so it would be a quick hack (or something to model off of).

There was a nice piece of software a few years back that gave Java  
presentations/webinars with a sandboxed console so you can play  
around in the shell @ the same time, no luck refinding it but thought  
that was a nice touch.

- Jon

On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Allen Shaw wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking for a free/OSS (preferably PHP-oriented) solution to this
> problem:  Deliver paged content (eg., typical still-frame slide  
> show) to
> any number of viewers via the web browser only, while providing  
> only the
> host/operator with the controls to advance the slides in real  
> time;  and
> don't require the user to have anything other than a decent Internet
> connection and fairly modern browser.
>
> If nobody knows of an existing package like this, it seems it would be
> fairly simple to build, no?  Page-forward/back/jump commands could be
> sent by the operator to a database or file on the server, and some
> Javascript in the viewer could be monitoring the server for those
> commands and then adjust the display accordingly.
>
> Question: Is this
> a) so self-apparent and easy that nobody's bothered to develop a  
> package
> for it?
> b) much more complicated than I've explained and thus potentially a
> waste of time?
> or
> c)  contained already in some fairly simple CGI package you know about
> and I don't?
>
> Thanks,
> Allen
>
> -- 
> Allen Shaw
> Polymer (http://polymerdb.org)
>
>
>
> -- 
> Allen Shaw
> Polymer (http://polymerdb.org)
>
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