scaling up about reveal.js

[hakimel]

That's an interesting challenge. It's definitely struggling to keep the slides smooth with such heavy graphics inline. I believe the best way to combat this is to only render the elements that are slowing the page down when you enter that specific slide. There are events you can listen to that reveal.js dispatches based on what the active slide is (see https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js#states) and you could then activate or deactivate rendering of those objects as necessary.

[sressler]

Thanks...yeah now I'm trying something simpler and am could use a hint ;-) Instead of keeping everything in one big file I set it up to there is a main slide show (main.xhtml) and for those large slides I just directly link to a new file (fork1.xhtml). Problem is that when in fork1.xhtml I want to click a link and go back (there are actually several slides in the fork1 file) to the original main.xhtml file at the slide location where I left it. This is simply emulating the back button but it always takes me to the beginning of main.xhtml because it is all one file. Specifying a #name in the href also doesn't work. I think I need to specify a specific slide number (probably using the navigateTo function) but I'm confused about and I suspect there is a really easy way to do this ...I hope ;-)

[sressler]

An inelegant but workable solution: open up a new web page via the target attribute of an anchor tag. Not pretty and don't like opening up new windows...BUT then just close the new page and take off with the main part of the slide show where you leave off.

[philipbjorge]

@sressler - I integrated Lightview in my presentation fork. This allowed seamless, inline external links. Most of the links in my presentation open this way (except https). I actually prefer it this way - it allows for a much more seamless experience than traditional presentations.
http://www.philipbjorge.com/bioinformatics-presentation/

[sressler]

Just got around to checking this out the lightview approach is brilliant...works great ...thanks!