[S5-discuss] One file

[Stuart Langridge]

> On a different note, why not create an archive(.jar, .tar.gz ?) and
> write a Firefox Extension which can handle this archive, and display
> the slides without the user having to unzip and point the browser to
> the files. This will make s5 presentations more portable.
>
> Ofcourse IE users would be neglected, but IE users can just unzip and
> the archive and get the original files.

That way *no-one* can use S5 without installing extra stuff. One of
the big advantages of the current approach is that you can pretty much
guarantee to find a web browser on whichever machine you're on, and S5
will work on it. If it's in a zip file then no browsers at all will
work with it. That's why I'd like to wrap it all up in one file that
the browsers already understand...

sil

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