S5 (file format)
Template:Infobox file format S5 (Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System) is an XHTML-based file format for defining slideshows. It was created by Eric A. Meyer as an alternative to the browser-centric Opera Show Format. S5 is not a presentation program, but fulfills the same purpose in combination with a standards-compliant web browser.
HistoryEdit
The initial version of S5<ref name="s5-11-release" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was released by Eric Meyer on October 18, 2004 under a Creative Commons license.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> With the release of version 1.1 on July 28, 2005, S5 was placed in the public domain.<ref name="s5-11-release" />
On July 17, 2006, Ryan King launched s5project.org, "a new community site, dedicated to the S5 Presentation software".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
On December 4, 2006, Andreas Gohr announced a DokuWiki plugin that converts Wiki markup to XHTML-compatible S5 presentations.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
StructureEdit
The content of an S5 presentation can be stored in a single XHTML file. This file contains several slides which are structured in the following way:
<syntaxhighlight lang="xml">
</syntaxhighlight>
S5 presentations can be viewed in outline and slideshow mode; Cascading Style Sheets 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.