S5 is everywhere! 2005 October 24
Less then a month ago I have never heard of S5. For those who have never heard of it, it is “A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.”
Why am I bringing this up? Because I am all of sudden seeing it everywhere. I saw a few OSS related presentations at local user groups using it. I also seen a number of presentations using it at Access and Netspeed. It seems like a good concept and I think I will try to use it during my next presentation. Besides, all the cool kids are doing it! One thing I did notice though is that you may really want to only use S5 on your own computer or make sure you can check (and tweak) the browser on the presentation computer before hand. I say this because I saw a few examples of people having problems with using S5 on computers belonging to other people. In most cases it appeared from afar that the problem was related to Firefox extensions that didn’t play well with S5, but that is only my speculation.
Actually, I’ve only heard of browser issues with S5 where Internet Expllorer was involved, or where cross platform issues existed. I myself created an S5 presentation on a PC, testing with Firefox, and then presented on a Mac OSX box without any tweaks to the code at all, but there were tweaks to the images. PNG++ GIF–
At any rate, I use all kinds of extensions on both machines, neither of which were extension-synched in any way. The only thing related to S5 regarding extensions I know of was how easy it was to use the Web Developer extensions to tweak my S5 CSS markup. On both platforms.
S5++
ecorrado.us: S5 is everywhere!
ecorrado groks S5 – I’d like to think it was because of me – but I doubt it.
ecorrado.us » S5 is everywhere!
Less then a month ago I have never heard of S5. For those who have never heard of it, it is “A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show Sy…
I think one of the problems I saw may have been a cross platform issue and I think there may have been some “experimental” plugins at work in other cases. At any rate, when giving a presentation on other peoples equipment, no matter what the presentation software, it is always good to test, (and hopefully have a back up plan). I’ve seen problems with the slide shows created using the same version number of a big proprietary vendors software, for example.
I started a website with a s5 online generator. Only a browser is needed, no notpad or ppt
Create and save presentations online at http://www.s5easy.com
If you have any suggestions for the website please give me a note with the feedback box on the site.
powtac
[...] For both presentations I made a S5 slide show (although I didn’t use most of the one I made for CHLUG; opting to do it in more as a demonstration. although these were the first two presentations I used S5 for, I was real happy with it and I plan on continuing to use it. If you don’t mind cosing HTML by hand, it is a good choice for a slide show IMO. [...]