Save as web page and Safari

[Greg]

Hello,

I was saving a presentation as a web page in PPT X and found that to open it
in Safari, you have to select the option to "add support for other browsers"
which essentially makes really ugly, dithered GIF images of each slide.

If you don't "add support for other browsers", when you try to open the web
page in Safari there's a Javascript that kicks you to an error page that says
your browser isn't supported. (If you open the web page in MSIE it looks
great-- real type, backgrounds, and photos are JPEGs-- not all composed as
one dithered GIF.)

Questions:

Does the new PPT 2004 recognize and support Safari better?

Has anyone ever hacked the Javascript to recognize Safari? (I can't believe
Safari wouldn't render the pages correctly if given the chance)

Thanks.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Greg,

The save as web page feature is essentially the same in X and 2004.

_jim

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[Greg]

So, even though Microsoft has discontinued development of MSIE for Mac,
and even though Safari is fast becoming the browser of choice for Mac
users, the brand-new, better-than-ever Powerpoint still only offers marginal
support for Safari when saving a presentation as a web page. Hmm...

Anyone at Microsoft's Macintosh Business Group listening? It seems to me
that all it would take is some re-working of the Javascript, no?

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi Greg,

I have no doubt that Microsoft knows about this and has it on their list of
things to fix. That's why it is important for you to tell Microsoft about
your concern via the feedback feature on the PowerPoint help menu. They
prioritize feature requests in part based on user feedback.

Getting all the new animations and transitions, the visual basic & realbasic
code behind all of them, and getting them to work right was an enormous task
for the PowerPoint team. They didn't even have time to finish the GUI for
animation paths, although thankfully they do work

So give them some time and they will get to this sooner or later.

-Jim

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