Comments on: S5 1.0

By: trifide

trifide — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:38 +0000

It would be great if there was a “splashing page” to the start…. loading the content in background, then showing first page of the slide show …
Now I get a header and a footer with a blank space in the between …
thanks for your app Meyer, I love it.

By: Joe McMahon

Joe McMahon — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:08:22 +0000

Eric, you are absolutely right (and I get what I deserve for not editing my XHTML in a real XML editor!). I’ve fixed all my XML validation errors and Safari now reads the presentation flawlessly.

Firefox was more forgiving about the errors, so i was able to use the presentation I had, but this is better. Thanks for the pointer!

By: Ton v. Lankveld

Ton v. Lankveld — Fri, 29 Oct 2004 08:53:16 +0000

Great job.
You’re an inspiration for Web standards.

Only, if I print (with IE6) S5 1.0 Reference, a part of the text is missing. It looks like it’s moved over the left edge of the page.

Still, a great job :)

By: matthewdennis.com

matthewdennis.com — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 00:50:57 +0000

Catching Up
After recent neglect, I’m making an effort to catch up on my web surfing. Eric Meyer has released S5, a new system for using CSS to create slideshow presentations for web browsers. This could prove quite useful the next time…

By: Penmachine words music comment

Penmachine words music comment — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:30:54 +0000

More on replacing PowerPoint
Some days ago I mentioned Eric Meyer’s browser-based PowerPoint replacement, called S5. Now there are additional slide themes, and ways to turn a regular weblog into an S5 presentation/slideshow.

By: Junk Monkey

Junk Monkey — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:07:31 +0000

You are a lovely man :)))

By: Oren Sreebny's Weblog

Oren Sreebny's Weblog — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:42:47 +0000

S5 – at last, a good web-based presentation package
Last week for my presentation on Chandler and the CSG at Educause 2004 I used Eric Meyer’s S5 package instead of Powerpoint for the first time. It worked like a charm! In case you’re wondering, S5 stands for the “simple standards-based slide show sy…

By: jayfromtaiwan

jayfromtaiwan — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:38:47 +0000

(just wanna add something more)

On Firefox the speed is acceptable, it’s just that it causes Firefox to use a lot of CPU

Beside that, this software is really really good, thanks for freeing us from Powerpoint ;)

By: jayfromtaiwan

jayfromtaiwan — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 03:35:39 +0000

I made a presentation (on “installing firefox”) with the S5 system, and found something interesting. On IE the presentations plays smoothly, but on Firefox it seems to causes Firefox to use a lot of CPU, especially when switching between slides.

here’s the link: http://pryan.org/firefox/jayfromtaiwan/presentations/firefoxinstall/s5-blank.html *warning* it’s in chinese

Any ideas?

By: Jason Karns

Jason Karns — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:35:33 +0000

I’ve just finished “adapting” S5 to my high school marching band site. I’m using it as a photo album slideshow. I loved how easy it was to transform into a slideshow template. I basically created an S5 generator in php such that it is passed a title, directory (and date in my case) with which it searches the directory for jpg’s to populate the slide show. However, due to the number of images, the FOUC is more than an annoyance. To users on dial-up, it could take minutes, rather than seconds, to load as it must wait on each image (into the 100′s for some albums). I don’t want to go tinkering with the js TOO much (I’m fearful of breaking it) so if anyone has taken the time to fix this, I sure would appreciate it. Thanks,

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:05:00 +0000

Joe: I'm pretty sure it isn't a bug in Safari. Two weeeks ago, at UI9, I ran a 56-slide S⁵ presentation in Safari and had no trouble. I just re-checked the presentation file, and still had no problems. The only technical difference between my presentation file and yours is that mine validated. Yours has a rather large collection of errors. Once those errors are corrected, if Safari still has the problem, then it may be a Safari problem, or it could as well be something in the JavaScript. But until then, it's difficult to say one way or the other.

By: Joe McMahon

Joe McMahon — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:01:24 +0000

Two items:

Safari gets confused if the presentation is more than about 15 or 16 slides; I'm convinced it's a Safari bug, because the same slideshow works just fine in Firefox.
I've < href="http://www.ibiblio.org/mcmahon/s5-iBook/index.html">tweaked all of the contributed themes to work a little nicer on a 12" iBook.

I'm using it for a presentation this week as well; it's just a lot easier than Powerpoint or Keynote to get exactly what I want on the page and have it look nice. (By the way: International is missing the ile, which causes it to not load - I had a moderate amount of headscratching before I figured that out!)

By: Jonathan Bloy

Jonathan Bloy — Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:04:31 +0000

What a nice presentation system! Thank you so much for making this available. I have to make a presentation at a job interview in the next few days, and S5 will work perfectly.

Nice job Eric!

By: WebGate log

WebGate log — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:06:37 +0000

S5 1.0 : Standards Web et présentation
Eric Meyer a développé un système de présentation S5 version 1.0 basé sur les standards Web (CSS et javascript). Les présentations sont personnalisables et certains thèmes sont déjà disponibles ….

By: clurrcache online

clurrcache online — Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:00:02 +0000

Presenting with Standards

Putting slides online used to require that everyone had a certain piece of proprietary software installed in order to be able to view them. Or that you had to generate some interesting HTML as generated by the afore (non)mentioned product to allow t…