S5 Tools

S5 is an XHTML + CSS + Javascript slideshow system created by Eric Meyer, which uses microformats (namely, XOXO).

Tools

Here are some tools for working with S5 slideshows.

• www.S5easy.com Create, share, edit and downlad as zip/tar S5 presentations online.
• S5 + Instiki - A little out of date. Will replace with the instructions for .10 in the near future.
• Friwikiwiki - PHP and DHTML, in development. Plans XUL version.
• Soapbox - Rails based editor
• S5 Presents - another Rails based editor, download available
• S5 for Plone - as the name suggests
• S5 module for Oddmuse
• S5 plugin for OmniOutliner 3 - no web page I could find; this is the download
• Restructured Text (reST) to S5 converter
• Schema support for S5 including, notably, a slideshow DTD and S5-to-Atom
• Slimey Open Source S5 editor, by the OpenGoo project.
• Pandoc - multi-markup converter - generates S5 from rest, markdown and more

Forum/Support

• S5 Forum/Mailing List Questions? Send them along to the S5 and friends forum/mailing list

More S5-Style Web Alternatives

Note that there are other slide formats as listed here: Slide ML by Bitflux, PerlPoint by Jochen Stenzel, Slidy by Dave Raggett of W3C, Slide Show (S9) by Gerald Bauer.