Eric Meyer's S5 has quickly become the tool of choice for
presentations at web conferences. Now there's some competition:
AJAX-S by Robert Nyman uses Ajax to
display a presentation, like this demo.
It ends up looking a lot like S5, but the big difference is that the content is entirely separated from the
presentation. You edit an XML file to create the slides, and a CSS file for their presentation. The Ajax script reads
the XML and uses XSLT to format it. Due to the need for XSLT support, AJAX-S requires IE 6.0 or a Mozilla-based
browser.
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AJAX-S: Ajax Slideshows
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. #1 im not too sure about the back button issue (gmail's works) but to bookmark a page or send a link to someone, shouldnt be that difficult. what i've done with my ajax site is "LINK TO THIS PAGE" and that is basically a link with a variable passed through the url identifying the page - .php?foo=foo then on the page if foo is set call the information the same way you would with ajax.
Posted at 5:49AM on Dec 19th 2005 by emehrkay
3. That's a great idea emehrkay. I'm one of the people that Dave mentions - I've always found it frustrating when AJAX pages don't let me go back.
Posted at 5:49AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dan Bailey
4. This is really inovation at its best. I think its pretty cool to work with.
Posted at 2:32AM on Dec 29th 2005 by ethan
1. Robert Nyman's AJAX-S is nice, however...it fails to negatives that some people have with AJAX. How would someone bookmark a specific slide? The back button is obsolete in AJAX-S
Posted at 5:49AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Dave Long