[Tex/LaTex] Beamer and JavaScript in a web browser

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I have written a talk in Beamer and to illustrate one of my points I've written a program in JavaScript (well actually Processing). You can view it here (it seems to run ok in Chrome and Firefox, and indeed on my phone). At the moment I Alt+Tab out of my presentation into Google Chrome when it comes to the relevant slide in my talk. This isn't such a bad solution, but it's not a nice solution.

I would like to be able to export my slides into html/svg and then use some combination of JavaScript and HTML5 to view my slides in the browser. Googling I wasn't able to find a well-documented approach to this, although there are a lot of snippets, mainly on this site.

Has anyone had success in doing this? And if so what tools/path did you use?

Such an approach loses the absolute portability of the PDF format, but gains practical portability in the sense that I could show someone my slides on a tablet with all features intact.

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dvisvgm could be a solution. It converts dvi files to svg files, see http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net/

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PGFplots has the \addplot graphics (or \addplot3 graphics) feature.

This would allow you to export only the projected graphics plus some meta data about your coordinate space. Then, you import the resulting graphics using \addplot graphics - and communicate the mentioned "meta data" such that pgfplots can properly overlay a suitable axis, including all TeX axis descriptions that the package supports. It would even allow you to change axis limits (somewhat restricted by your input graphics of course).

Here, SVG would be an intermediate step; you would need to convert it to (say) pdf first. But this would not hurt anymore since your graphics would only contain graphical elements, the text would be task of pgfplots and its overlay.

You can find detailed instructions in the pgfplots manual pgfplots manual, section "Using External Graphics as Plot Sources".

In case this is what you want and you run into unparticipated problems, you can ask a more detailed question here.

[Tex/LaTex] Insert web content dynamically (Javascript?)

Package media9 is an option.

This example displays latest FIFA news in a Flash-based RSS-Reader I found on the web. It is embedded in the footline of every slide in a beamer presentation. It doesn't seem to update the content, though. However, it is reloaded (with updated content) when moving to the next presentation slide (Acrobat Reader required).

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{media9}

\setbeamertemplate{footline}{
\includemedia[
  width=\paperwidth,height=0.1\linewidth,
  activate=pageopen, deactivate=pageclose,
  flashvars={rss=http://www.fifa.com/rss/index.xml},
  url
]{}{http://rsstool.sanriotown.com/rssReader.swf}%
}

\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Frame title}
Please concentrate on the slide content!
\end{frame}
\end{document}

↗Another example, uses SlideShow.swf (also media9) to display a life image loaded from the web.

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