A few years ago I wrote about (and used!) S5, the Simple Standards-based Slide Show System.
A few days ago, SitePoint offered an overview of “5 of the Best Free HTML5 Presentation Systems“. It cannot be denied that these five, possibly along with others, go beyond what is possible with Eric Meyer’s S5. But that isn’t too surprising, given the advances in browser technology since 2005 ;-)
I’m trying out “reveal.js“, just to see what can be done. At first glance, the presentation part is fantastic, as long as you’re online or stick to standard PC fonts. The good part: even the standard Samsung browser in Android 2.3 seems to handle the “reveal.je” code reasonably well; Opera chokes on it.
So what’s missing? S5 also has a mechanism to incorporate and print out speaker notes – I have not seen any mention of something similar in the HTML5 presentation systems mentioned by SitePoint. And of course I still miss the browser-based editor for such presentation systems – for tools in this category, text editors can be beat!
