Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

S5 signifie Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System et est un format de fichier basé sur le XHTML pour créer des diaporamas. Il a été créé par Éric Meyer comme alternative à l'Opera Show Format, reservé au navigateur Opera. S5 n'est pas un lecteur de diaporamas, mais crée un fichier qui pourra être affiché par un navigateur. Le texte d'un diaporama S5 est enregistré dans un simple fichier XHTML. Ce fichier peut contenir de nombreuses pages, codées de cette façon :

<div class="slide">
 <h1>Titre</h1>
 <ul>
   <li>Petit 1</li>
   <li>Petit 2</li>
   <li>Petit 3</li>
 </ul>
 <div class="handout">
  ... plus d'informations ici
 </div>
</div>

S5 presentations can be viewed in outline and slideshow mode - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 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 semantic version of the S5 format is based on the XOXO microformat 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.

On July 28th, 2005, the S5 format and software was placed in the Public Domain by Eric Meyer.

On September 7, 2005, Carsten Borman released S6, a "synchronized S5" for coordinated display of an S5 slideshow to a number of different users.

On July 17th, 2006, Ryan King launched s5project.org, "a new community site, dedicated to the S5 Presentation software".

In December 2006, Christian Effenberger launched S5 Reloaded, an extended version of S5 (autorun, scalable images, sound support, transition effects, new themes etc.).

See also

• Web based presentation tools

External links

• Official homepage
  • Example slideshow
  • Usage primer
  • S5 Reference (XOXO Version)
  • S5 1.1 - 2005-07-28 announcement and placement explicitly in the Public Domain.
• S5 Project
  • Announcing S5Project.org - 2006-07-17, official announcement of s5project.org community.
• S5 Reloaded
• Microformats.org community
• SSG (S5 Slidy Generator Project)
  • SSG demo
• S5easy.com: Create S5 presentations in your browser
• S6 - Synchronized S5
• Presentacular adds script.aculo.us visual effects to slide shows created with S5
• DOMSlides turns an HTML document into presentation slides via Unobtrusive JavaScript, An Alternative to S5
• Slide Show (S9) is a Ruby gem that lets you create slide shows and author slides in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read.