Standards-Based CSS/XHTML Slide Show 175
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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S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System
S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. 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. Anyone with even a smidgen of familiarity with HTML or XHTML can look at the markup and figure out how to adapt it to their particular needs. Anyone familiar with CSS can create their own slide show theme. It's totally simple, and it's totally standards-driven.
As a bonus, its markup is compatible with the Opera Show Format, and S5 is engineered to be displayed using Opera Show when a presenation is run using Opera.
If you'd like to see S5 in action, go ahead and run through the introductory slide show [meyerweb.com] (also available as an 95KB ZIP archive [meyerweb.com], the size of which is due to the presence of several images in the slide show). Feel free to try any of the features. For example, you can hit the space bar to advance to the next slide. Or use the right arrow, the down arrow, hit Return... any of these will work. The other features will be explained in, or else demonstrated by, the slide show itself.
If you like the general idea of S5 but don't like the theme used for the intorductory slide show, then fear not: there are already a number of themes [meyerweb.com] available, and you can of course always create your own.
If you have a hankerin' to know more about how this system works, exactly, we have a few resources that might help.
Please also visit the thanks and acknowledgments [meyerweb.com] page, which lists the people who helped improve S5 beyond what I ever could have done myself.
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Re:Oh, the irony - slashdot talking about standard (Score:2, Informative)
Now if only some-one could come up with a HTML 3.2 standards compliant browser.
More standards support, I say! (Yes, I use FireFox)
OO.o Impress? (Score:2, Informative)
Im not exactly sure of a reason to develop this standard though. I've been using the latest version of OpenOffice's Impress to do all my presentations for my uni projects. I've found it really easy to use.. maybe a little easier than Powerpoint. I know its more a clone of PP than anything revolutionary, but it stores its presentations in an OPEN format. It works great, and is also has very few problems when converting to a powerpoint slide (im not doing anything complicated, but I've had no trouble).
And it does the scaling of text and graphics really well which this standard (from a previous comment) doesn't really handle... I think Eric Meyer's work is awesome, but is this something that is actually really needed, or is it just an example of a clever combination of existing technologies together?
Did my own version once (Score:4, Informative)
I hereby put it into the public domain.
LaTeX (Score:5, Informative)
Those who use LaTeX should check out beamer--the table of contents is quite intelligent & they are easily theamable & have already solved many things that S5 is only planning to include.
Re:Oh, the irony - slashdot talking about standard (Score:5, Informative)
You believe wrong, it isn't even compliant 3.2. Run it through a validator and watch all the problems it shows.
Stop with the "standards" bullshit! (Score:1, Informative)
Okay, I like and respect Eric Meyer. But I'm getting fed up with all of this bullshit about standards. XHTML and CSS are not standards. Javascript's syntax has been standardised by ECMA-262, but the objects this slide show (and practically every bit of Javascript on the web) uses are outside the scope of that standard.
Sure, it's nice, clean code. And it conforms to the W3C's specifications where they are applicable. But this isn't "standards-based" at all. If it were, it would be based around ISO-HTML, the only form of HTML that has been standardised, and not XHTML.
The W3C are not a standards body. That's why their specifications are entitled "recommendations". Tim Berners-Lee deliberately avoided setting up the W3C as a standards body.
When people talk about "web standards", they are either ignorant or are trying to elevate the W3C's specifications as more authoritative than they actually are. Eric Meyer is not ignorant, which makes his proclamations about "web standards" rather deceptive. "Web standards" has become nothing short of a buzzword designed to con PHBs.
Re:Oh, the irony - slashdot talking about standard (Score:1, Informative)
I beleive Slashdot is standards compliant. HTML 3.2, according to its !DOCTYPE.
Even if it adhered to the HTML 3.2 specification (which it doesn't), that wouldn't make Slashdot standards compliant. HTML 3.2 isn't a standard.
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Coral P2P cache (Score:2, Informative)
You guys should stop using the google cache and use Coral caches [nyu.edu] instead.
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Acrobat Reader 6 under Windows can easily be changed to launch really quick, if one "disables" all the useless plugins:
1. Enter the Reader-folder.
2. Create a backup-folder, named e.g. "plug_ins_disabled"
3. Move all files from the "plug_ins"-folder, except "EWH32.api", "printme.api" og "Search.api" to the new folder.
3b. Alternatively, just delete all files in the "plug_ins"-folder - again, with the exception of the above three files.
Open a PDF and get amazed
(some of the "useless" plugins are stuff like reading encrypted pdfs - that and other features might not exist if the related plugin is removed... I haven't had any problems, though, through ordinary use for the last six months after removing all these plugin-files)
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