In article <BB531D22.780A%marsmars2[at]mac.com>,
"Michael A. Russell" <marsmars2[at]mac.com> wrote:

> Greetings! I have made some Web slides of my PowerPoint files which work
> brilliantly when viewed in Internet Explorer (5 or later) and Netscape (7 or
> later). When viewed in Safari (1.0), however, I get a message from the
> endshow.htm file which reads "Open the default .htm file to view this Web
> presentation." This message appears in each of the frames in the PowerPoint
> generated web files.
>
> I've tried to remove some of the JavaScript from the "slides" in the
> PowerPoint-generated folder which reads:
>
> if ( ! top.PPTPRESENTATION ) {
> window.location.replace( "endshow.htm" );
>
> but this did not work. There appears to be additional code in the script.js
> file which relates to endshow.htm
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) has anyone else had this problem? and
> 2) does anyone have or know of a fix for this problem?
>
> A considerable portion of my audience will be using Safari, and if I have to
> go through the code myself, I will, but I'm hoping someone else may have
> developed a solution to this difficulty.

Quick question Michael, which version and platform of PowerPoint are you
creating these web presentation with?

I did a quick test with PPT X for Mac and it worked just fine. (No
animations, or other special effects, but that's to be expected.)

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>> Greetings! I have made some Web slides of my PowerPoint files which work
>> brilliantly when viewed in Internet Explorer (5 or later) and Netscape (7 or
>> later). When viewed in Safari (1.0), however, I get a message from the
>> endshow.htm file which reads "Open the default .htm file to view this Web
>> presentation." This message appears in each of the frames in the PowerPoint
>> generated web files.
>>
>> I've tried to remove some of the JavaScript from the "slides" in the
>> PowerPoint-generated folder which reads:
>>
>> if ( ! top.PPTPRESENTATION ) {
>> window.location.replace( "endshow.htm" );
>>
>> but this did not work. There appears to be additional code in the script.js
>> file which relates to endshow.htm
>>
>> My questions:
>>
>> 1) has anyone else had this problem? and
>> 2) does anyone have or know of a fix for this problem?
>>
>> A considerable portion of my audience will be using Safari, and if I have to
>> go through the code myself, I will, but I'm hoping someone else may have
>> developed a solution to this difficulty.
>
> Quick question Michael, which version and platform of PowerPoint are you
> creating these web presentation with?
>
> I did a quick test with PPT X for Mac and it worked just fine. (No
> animations, or other special effects, but that's to be expected.)

Hi John! I am using PPT X. I should mention also that opening the file
from the Mac's hard disk (i.e. File -> Open) will sometimes work ok, but
upon placing the files on my server I get the dreaded "Open the default .htm
file" message.

Frustrating!!! Thanks for the response; peace, -- Michael