Rslidy: Lightweight, accessible, and responsive HTML5 slide decks.
Rslidy is a presentation tool using HTML5, CSS3, and TypeScript which runs directly inside the web browser. Slides are created within sections inside the HTML5 body element and are presented one at a time with transitions.
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Use standard HTML5 elements to create slides. For an introduction to HTML5, see HTML Dog or HTML5 Intro.
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Slide navigation.
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Slide overview.
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Table of contents.
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Responsive design.
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Responsive interactions (incl. shake and tilt).
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Image viewer (incl. zoom and pan).
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Support for CSS styles:
- Animations
- Fonts
- Colours
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Accessibility through ARIA roles.
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Live code can be embedded.
Download the latest binary release here.
To install and build Rslidy from source, use the following commands:
git clone "https://github.com/tugraz-isds/rslidy.git"
Then, in the rslidy folder, run:
npm install
npx gulp
The rslidy/build folder will then contain Rslidy's main files, as
well as some example presentations, which can be copied and adapted to
create new slide decks.
The Help Panel in a Rslidy presentation contains an overview of Rslidy's interface controls.
The creation of a slide deck with Rslidy is done in a single HTML file.
To properly build the slide deck, the HTML file must contain a header including rslidy.js and rslidy.css. Alternatively, the minimized versions, rslidy.min.js and rslidy.min.css offer the same features in a compromised way and can be included instead.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="rslidy.min.css" />
<script src="rslidy.js" />Rslidy is self-contained, there are no additional dependencies.
Within the body of the document, all slides are created. Each slide is
represented eighter by a <section> or a <div class="slide"> element:
<section>
<h1>Title of slide 1</h1>
</section>
<section>
<h1>Title of slide 2</h1>
</section><div class="slide">
<h1>Alternative version</h1>
<p>
A paragraph of text.
</p>
</div>To organize slides, bullet points are created as shown in the snippet below.
<section>
<h1>Slide Heading</h1>
<ul>
<li>First point</li>
<li>Second point</li>
<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha; padding-bottom: 0;">
<li style="margin-left:3em"> First subpoint of second point </li>
</ol>
<li>Third point</li>
</ul>
</section>To make list items appear one at a time, use the
<ul class="incremental"> instead of <ul>.
The inclusion of images or other graphical elements works just like in any other HTML file within slides using the standard HTML <img>
element. The same counts for CSS style definitions. However, all CSS definitions must be defined outside the body.
A possible inclusion of a picture with a CSS might look as shown below:
<style>
img {
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
.imgContainer{
float:left;
}
</style>
<body>
<section>
<h1>Image Demo</h1>
<img src="logo_tu.png" alt="tugraz-isds" style="width:25%;">
</section>
</body>Rslidy's image viewer is automatically associated with every image.
There are currently four transition types between slides:
slidein(default)fadezoomunanimated
The desired transition type is added to the body element:
<body class="fade"><body class="unanimated">The easiest way of sharing a slide deck created with RSlidy is by zipping the whole folder. However, when simplifying, the zipped folder must contain under all circumstances the html file of the slide deck, the file rslidy.js the file rslidy.css as well as all included graphics. If rslidy.min.css or rslidy.min.js are used for the presentation, they must be included instead or additionally to the unminimized version of the files. Sharing only the html file on its own will not be sufficient!
A number of internal Rslidy settings can be directly overridden using JavaScript, as shown below:
<script>
window.rslidy.close_menu_on_selection = true;
window.rslidy.close_navigation_on_selection = true;
window.rslidy.start_with_status_bar_minimized = true;
window.rslidy.image_viewer = false;
window.rslidy.start_in_low_light_mode = true;
window.rslidy.block_slide_text_selection = true;
window.rslidy.show_slide_dividers = false;
</script>For more information, see the example file overrides.html.
To build the project use:
npx gulp build
Build may be omitted, since it is the default gulp task.
There is also a gulp task using Browsersync and gulp watch
for more convenient development.
npx gulp watch
This task will initialise a build and synchronise the browser content every time a source files changes.
notes.html will be shown as default presentation, however, with
--slide <file> a specific file can be synchronised. The file has to
be in the examples/tests directory.
npx gulp watch --slide <file>
To commit changes from the icons located in src/icons to Rslidy, the
following gulp task has to be run:
npx gulp icons
This creates or updates the file src/ts/icon-definitions.ts with
optimised SVG icon strings.
The following people have contributed to Rslidy:
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Keith Andrews kandrews@iicm.edu
Project Leader -
Patrick Hipp
Master's Thesis, main developer -
Christopher Kopel
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Gsellmann Inge, Heider Martin, Leitner Lukas, Patel Vrutanjali Rakesh
IAweb WS 2023 G1 -
Angelika Droisner, Ana Korotaj
IAweb WS 2018 G1a -
Thomas Eibl, Michael Glatzhofer, Christoph Heidenreich, Verena Schiffer
IAweb WS 2017 G1 -
Rok Kogovšek, Alexei Kruglov, Fernando Pulido Ruiz, Helmut Zöhrer
IAweb WS 2016 G5 -
Markus Schofnegger
BSc 02 Nov 2015 -
Filippo Garolla, Sabine Lukas, Matthias Schlesinger, Karin Wilding
IAweb WS 2014 G1 -
Elias Zeitfogel, Patrick Kasper, Karina Priebernig, Clemens Meinhart
IAweb WS 2013 G4