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Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show

Posted by timothy on from the look-ma-no-powerpoint dept.

sootman writes "Eric Meyer, the man behind the famous Complex Spiral (CSS) Demo page, is at it again. He has created S5, "a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript." As he says, "With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible." So it can be used for PowerPoint-like work and the show responds to a variety of input--you can go to the next slide by pressing Return, Right, Space, etc. It is being released under a Creative Commons license. So fire up our favorite standards-compliant browser and check it out!"

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  1. A New Record .. by z0ink · · Score: 5, Funny

    No posts and already slashdotted.

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  2. Google Cache Links for 'ya ... by xmas2003 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Since it appears to be /.'ed, here a Google Cache of the Demo Page and the S5 page

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  3. Meyerweb is always great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eric Meyer's site is always pretty interesting to watch, at least for web geeks like me (you know, the type who actually read the DTDs for the html and xhtml specs and play with css daily). S5 has been under development for awhile, and I hadnt gotten a chance to see it yet....

    Of course, thanks to slashdot, looks like I'll have to wait till tomarrow

  4. Mirror by dancedance · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a mirror of the zip file that you can test locally.

  5. Oh, the irony - slashdot talking about standards? by Corporate+Gadfly · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow... the irony. Slashdot is talking about standards. Isn't it about time that /. itself should be standards compliant?

    BTW, to make this comment on topic, the slideshow looks pretty decent, but I wouldn't consider this ground breaking stuff. Eric Krock (netscape technology evangelist) was doing these sort of presentations in the 1998/1999 timeframe.

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  6. Excellent powerpoint killer by raahul_da_man · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is an excellent example of the Web applications that Microsoft feared. Even though it is crude, and it has one killer limitation:

    * Fonts are not scaled based on display resolution and available pixels; manual CSS editing is required

    And a massively annoying one:

    * Only one author can be listed in the metadata

    I'm not quite sure why the second limitation exists. But already this program does all of the important functions I need Powerpoint for, and it has one big advantage over powerpoint .. the html version looks far prettier on the web than powerpoint does.

    I was highly intrigued to learn about Opera's powerpoint alternative and previous attempts in this direction. This may be the first web app that I use all the time.

  7. I would be very impressed... by bigmanjq · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If OpenOffice built this into its presentation software. It would be nice if when you save your presentation you have the option to save as an XHTML document. This would dramatically reduce file size and allow OpenOffice to be used more widely (in my opinion) for some web applications. How hard could it be to port this format (since it is open) to OpenOffice? Any Volunteers?

  8. CSS stands for by Dorsai65 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't Survive Slashdotting, apparently.

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