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S5: web-based presentationware

Posted Tue, 11 Jul 2006

I found some time tonight to convert one of my slideshows to S5. It's not fully done, but I have a working slideshow. It took about 5 lines of xslt different from the presenter.xsl stylesheet to turn my slideshow stuff into S5. I still need to learn about S5, but it seems to have many of the features I want - have I mentioned this before? ;)

It's *much* slower than xmlpresenter when switching slides. I can move at many slides-per-second with xmlpresenter and it takes 1-2 seconds to switch slides with S5. However, I'm not sure 'slides-per-second' is even a meaningful metric worth considering. Who does multiples slides in a second anyway? Still, I'm concerned for the overall speed of the software if switching slides takes a while.

my vim presentation in s5: presentations/s5/vim.html

Comments: 9 | Link to this post | posted at: 23:26

Tags: s5, microformats, presentations, vim

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Adam wrote at Wed Jul 12 08:05:05 2006...

I could click very rapidly on your vim presentation.

Here's my user agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4.

However, this is a 3.4GHz system with 2GB RAM.

Jordan Sissel wrote at Wed Jul 12 09:10:53 2006...

Strange, it's slow for me on 3.4gHz w/ 2GB ram under Linux though. I'll try in windows.

Jordan Sissel wrote at Wed Jul 12 09:45:58 2006...

Strange, it's slow for me on 3.4gHz w/ 2GB ram under Linux though. I'll try in windows.

Mike Dumont wrote at Wed Jul 12 18:41:31 2006...

I also could go pretty fast through your presentation. (approximately 5 slides/second)

I'm running firefox 1.5 on Windows XP Pro. 3.0Ghz system with 1GB of RAM

Mike Dumont wrote at Wed Jul 12 18:58:33 2006...

I also could go pretty fast through your presentation. (approximately 5 slides/second)

I'm running firefox 1.5 on Windows XP Pro. 3.0Ghz system with 1GB of RAM

Jordan Sissel wrote at Wed Jul 12 19:40:13 2006...

Strange, it's slow for me on 3.4gHz w/ 2GB ram under Linux though. I'll try in windows.

Jordan Sissel wrote at Wed Jul 12 20:54:05 2006...

Hmm, I should fix comment double-posting.

Jordan Sissel wrote at Thu Jul 13 14:48:45 2006...

Strange, it's slow for me on 3.4gHz w/ 2GB ram under Linux though. I'll try in windows.

Jordan Sissel wrote at Fri Jul 14 14:14:19 2006...

Strange, it's slow for me on 3.4gHz w/ 2GB ram under Linux though. I'll try in windows.

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