Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen | solitude.dk

A neat part of the Opera webbrowser is OperaShow. With OperaShow you can use Opera as a presentation tool. Just like Powerpoint, only better.

Yesterday I discovered that Opera had released a technical documentation for the OperaShow Format — a set of rules for how OperaShow files should look. I was all kinds of excited, and tonight I hacked together a quick tool to take advantage of OSF documents. The OperaShow Manager as I called it simple creates an overview of all OperaShow Presentation in a given folder. It lists the title, date, author venue and the amount of slides in each presentation. You can also upload presentations made with the OperaShow Generator. You can either look at a screenshot or you can download the OperaShow Manager (3.88 KB zip file; PHP version needs to be recent). Newer version available.

This is something I hacked together tonight so don't look at it as a finished piece of software. I just wanted to share my ideas. Improvements I will work on:

• Sort by title, date etc.
• Pull out more metadata like logos.
• Show stylesheet name.
• Make a public list so visitors can see your presentations.

I've released my OperaShow Manager under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License so go ahead and make any additions to the code. The code is probably a bit muddy at the moment. Shoot me a pingback or an e-mail if you do anything with the OperaShow Manager. I'd love to see it.

This whole thing started when Eric Meyer started to create a cross-browser Slide Show. The comments in his second post has the creator of the OperaShow Format participating.

With all this Opera talk I feel the need to share a Simpsons quote:

Maybe Bob Dole should run. Bob Dole thinks Bob Dole should. Actually, Bob Dole just wants to hear Bob Dole talk about Bob Dole. Bob Dole!