S5 (''Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System'') is an

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-based file format for defining

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s. It was created by

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as an alternative to the browser-centric

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. S5 is not a

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, but fulfills the same purpose in combination with a standards-compliant

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History

The initial version of S5 was released by Eric Meyer on October 18, 2004 under a

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. With the release of version 1.1 on July 28, 2005, S5 was placed in the

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. On July 17, 2006, Ryan King launched ''s5project.org'', "a new community site, dedicated to the S5 Presentation software". On December 4, 2006, Andreas Gohr announced a

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plugin that converts

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to XHTML-compatible S5 presentations.

Structure

The content of an S5 presentation can be stored in a single XHTML file. This file contains several slides which are structured in the following way:

slide title

the first point
the second point
the third point

... additional material that appears on the handout

S5 presentations can be viewed in outline and slideshow mode;

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are used to define different layouts for outline, slideshow and print. Navigation controls, a dynamically generated list of slides and accesskeys allow browsing back and forth. A more

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version of the S5 format is based on the XOXO

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and uses <li class="slide"> instead of divs for the slides, as well as <ol class="xoxo presentation"> instead of a div for the overall presentation.

References

External links

Official homepage
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History

Structure

slide title

See also

References

External links