S5 (file format)

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S5 stands for S imple S tandards-based S lide S how S ystem and is a presentation system based on XHTML for the definition of presentation and the accompanying slides. It was designed by Eric Meyer as an alternative to the compatible Opera Show format .

S5 is not a stand-alone presentation program, but a standard for displaying presentations with standard-compatible browsers. All data can be saved in a single XHTML file as follows: 

<div class="slide">
 <h1>Titel der Präsentation</h1>
 <ul>
   <li>erster Punkt</li>
   <li>zweiter Punkt</li>
   <li>dritter Punkt</li>
 </ul>
 <div class="handout">
  ... zusätzliches Material im Handout
 </div>
</div>

S5 presentations can be viewed in outline and slideshow modes . Cascading Style Sheets are used to define display variants (e.g. presentation on screen and printout). Navigation controls, a dynamically generated slide list and access keys enable you to page back and forth.

A version with a more powerful semantic focus is based on the XML - microformat XOXO and uses <li class = "slide"> instead of divs for the films, and <ol class = "xoxo presentation"> instead of a div whole for presentation.

On July 28, 2005, version 1.1 of the S5 format , which had previously been under a Creative Commons license (Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), was transferred to the public domain by Eric Meyer .

On July 17, 2006, Ryan King started s5project.org as a community for the presentation software S5.

Towards the end of 2006, Christian Effenberger started S5 Reloaded as an extended version of S5 (automatic sequence, scalable images, sound support, transition effects, new themes, etc.).

Editors for S5

There are now editors that can be used to create S5 presentations in the browser. These are mostly based on the Slimey project.

In eyeOS this presentation program is already fixed component. Components or modules exist for other content management systems .

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