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.
Pity I don't have any familiarity with CSS....(Via Luis Villa's Blog.)
Very cool, thanks for pointing to this. I know several people who might like S5 as an Open Teaching tool, and I will try using it instead of PowerPoint for my next presentation (which will just be a lab meeting, v. informal, perfect test-bed).
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Glad you like it. I was pretty gobsmacked too - not least because it had completely crept under my radar....
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