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Thursday 7 October 2004
S5 final candidate release
PRESENTATIONS YOUR THING? Check out Eric Meyer’s S5, now in final release for your projected pleasure.
Using XHTML, CSS, and a bit of scripting, Eric has put together truly useful slide projection software. If you give lots of presentations, this is a great option, because unlike OperaShow, which I’ve been using for a few years, this will work in a range of browsers, yet retains the customization and accessibility features that OperaShow sports. Not just that, but it’s compatible with OperaShow 1.0, so you can use either option. Do be sure to check out the known problems and limitations slides.
We’ll be using S5 for our upcoming UI9 conference presentations, and I plan to use it for numerous other presentations in the near future.
Do you use any kind of slideshow projection software on a regular basis? If so – speak out about your favorites and let’s see how a standards-based solution might compare.
Filed under: software, standards
Posted by: Molly | 11:51 | Comments (17)
I am stuck using PowerPoint at work to give high-level presentations to prime contractors and NASA Project Offices.
I have a really flat forehead.
That’s an excellent system, I’m definitely going to use that!
Eric’s efforts are great. I might actually need this for school, this is so much handier than Powerpoint. Irregardless of the browser and system, this displays. I don’t evem have Powerpoint!
So Eric has given the web development community (and others) a great tool. Can’t thank him enough.
Geoff: Yea, PowerPoint would make me into a flathead in no time. Except for where the brick ridges left their marks
One thing we know about PowerPoint (and boy did I learn this the hard way – I posted a PowerPoint presentation on Accessibility a few years back and was taken to serious task over that) is that it’s very difficult to make PowerPoint presentations accessible.
Using XHTML and CSS, we have the advantage of taking all that code and not just using it as a projection mode, but also making it worthy of screen, print, and so forth.
Rob: Hey, wow them at school – that’s a great place to show this kind of thing off! And as for not having PowerPoint, that’s the other great aspect of such software – it’s not proprietary so in turn that means less (or in this case, no) cost and totally customizable / reconfigurable. Darned cool!
Molly: I’ll surely impress them. My (X)HTML + CSS is quite nice, so it could be a great match (no, not a lack of self-confidence for me here). If it’s allowed to do it with S5, I’ll post it up at my blog.
And the cost part is attracting me, together with the unproprietariness (is that actually even a word?).
The good thing about this is indeed that it is no longer limited to proprietary software, or accompanying Operating System.
Going to a customer and want to give your presentation off of your own Linux laptop? Not a problem!
Rob: Is “unprorietariness” a word, you ask? Well, no, it’s not. Neither is “Irregardless” which you keep using – ouch. The correct word is simply: regardless. I agree with you, however, on both counts.
Faruk: Yep, I don’t want my OS to determine everything about my web experience, which should be platform agnostic.
-m
Molly, I know that unproprietariness isn’t a word, but I don’t know the correct word for something like it. And about irregardless, I’ll forget that word and keep it simply regardless. Hey, I’m learning this language as I go.
Are the slides supposed to appear all on the screen when viewed on a monitor or is the point just full-screen web browsers for projection? Just curious.
Also, it’s easy to create PowerPoints that are accessible…
Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office.
sense.antisenseATgmail.com
In regards to your new photo, you look like Howard Stern.
HA! I’ve been compared to Howard Stern before. I’m definitely adding that option to the poll, ROFLMAO!
Brilliant. I’ve never liked Power Pointless.
I outline in OmniOutliner and then dump that into Keynote. I save out OmniOutliner to HTML and add CSS and clean-up the markup with a couple scripts. Not great, but it works on both ends. The slides are far better that PowerPoint, but the HTML is no where near as great as Eric’s work.
All thumbs up.