Well, it might become that.

Here is a simple piece of jQuery code - it only took a fortnight to make it simple.

jQuery - Messing with Slides.xar

It is a mixture of Presentation and Slideshow.

The key point is you can build up a slide with a variety of standard Xara shapes, give each a special Name of htmlclass="Slide.." and a Reveal Animation.
Add the Placeholder (Yellow box, Red Star) to the Page and you are cooking.

Things to sort out:
  1. The start-up is a bit of a fudge as I have not hijacked any Xara code so it has to run its course.
    1. It works in Variants but has a judder until the Xara code has re-established.
    2. Hyperlinking works but not in the Xara code phase.

  2. The slide deck is tedious to shuffle around at present.
  3. The show time is set to 10 seconds.
    1. I need to set up an array for a Playlist order and duration.

  4. I used jQuery as any Reveal Animation loads in jQuery by default so recoding in JavaScript is probably unnecessary.
    1. I have no Pause or Jump code set up yet.
    2. The Jump might overcome the Xara code hiccough.
    3. I have no easing transition from slide to slide.

i hope this is useful and offers food for thought.

I would love to see it being used more sanely.

Acorn