Today at work I was playing with Slideshare, among other web services. And I found something:
Bangs head against wall. Repeatedly.
I don’t care if this is some kind of ready-made code, spurted out from some CMS. It just sucks. Huge time.
Plus, dear Slideshare developers, add a way for me to construct the embed code for a slideshow just by using its URL, please.
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3 comments on this post
Jonathan Boutelle #1
05.May.08
That code looks like that because it has to be self-contained: since it is intended for embedding in someone else’s html, we can’t have css extracted into a css file. I agree it’s ugly!
Do you want an API call that does takes the url and returns the embed code? Our API already provides the embed code, so I’m not sure what else you need. But feel free to ping me directly (you’ve got my email now. ;->).
-jon boutelle
CTO, SlideShare
Svelon #2
05.May.08
At least you can’t say that the classes’ names don’t explain what they do.
Sugar #3
05.May.08
@Jonathan
At least you agree it’s ugly
This snippet is from a profile page, is this supposed to be self-contained too?
It struck me as too weird to be true anyway. Oh well.
As for the API issues, I’ll drop you a line. Thanks for the timely answer.