Slide design

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:
> Slides are 
> limited in size and text content simply because there is so much 
> information a person can absorb simultaneously by hearing and seeing.

Of course mammal brains have limits, but such limits are always higher than the amount of information shown in normal slides.


> I've been in Walter's HTML-based talks. Yes, my perception was indeed 
> that the talk was not properly prepared, although I knew it was. I have 
> no idea why that is, though I can speculate that the scrolling style 
> leads to looser presentations as the format does not force one to 
> present ideas crisply, one at a time.

I haven't appreciated much the html-based presentation, but probably some compromise can be found between that and the standard information-starved slides.
One problem with Walter's HTML-based talk was the long searching scroll up and down. You can create separated pages in Html too. (in my presentations I usually use pdf pages with a good amount of stuff. OpenOffice is able to output such PDF files too).

Bye,
bearophile