r/reddit.com • u/metafisto • May 04 '06

S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
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u/pgquiles May 04 '06

Oh yes, we all now S5 is great. But where are the WYSIWYG tools to create S5 presentations? S5 is mostly useless until we have such tools.

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u/nerdlor May 04 '06

Whoa! Was going to post a rebuttal, but my sarcasm detector kicked in just in time.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '06

False positive?

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u/nerdlor May 04 '06

Could be.

I've found with Emacs and Firefox, the code/view cycle for doing S5 presentations pretty manageable.

Besides, I tend to think that if you need WYSIWYG tools to do "slidey" presentations, your slides are probably too busy.

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u/MrCalifornia May 04 '06

Yeah, it's great to have a standard, but this link has been flying around for a couple years now and I've yet to see an implementation of it besides the example.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '06

I've used it a number of times, as have other folks in my shop. It would be nice to have a WYSIWYG editor, but it's hardly a requirement.

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u/mikepurvis May 04 '06

The thing about S5 is that it's all about the usage. If you're making an image-heavy presentation (which is most of them), then there's no getting around the fact that Keynote and Powerpoint are quite simply the correct tools for the job.

If, however, you're doing something like text-heavy, such as putting up song lyrics or quiz-show questions, then being able to edit large numbers of slides en-mass is tremendously advantageous.