Keynote Reader... in JavaScript

Today I have perpetrated a hack.

I give a fair few presentations, using Apple's Keynote software on my PowerBook. Unfortunately, my PowerBook is now broken and I can't afford to repair it (that is, perhaps, a hint) but I still have all these .key files and nothing to read them with.

Until today

• Copy this file and this file into your .key directory.
• Copy presentation.apxl to presentation.xml. (Mozilla won't grok .apxl files as valid XML - suggestions for how to hack the document.open call so this isn't necessary would be helpful!)
• Start Mozilla on keynote.html. (I haven't tried Safari yet.)

It mainly works. It even does builds, but you can't go backwards yet. And the builds aren't pretty animtions. What a shame. Also remember that most of the graphics that you paste into Keynote come out as .tiff or .pict files, which most browsers don't like. But you know, it works.

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