Short description
Maybe we could use Moin for simple, integrated writing of slideshows and the standard S5 format for output.
There are many formats for (linear, simple, bussiness style) presentations, currently named slideshow in Moin.
Maybe adding another way to do the same thing that others is not always a good idea. If a simple enough, good enough way exists, maybe we could use it. Introducing S5: a Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System and is an XHTML-based file format for defining slideshows.
References:
Short introduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5_file_format
The original site: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
The (very) new site: http://s5project.org/
This feature help anyone who uses slideshows/presentation and would add more compatibility with open formats.
Sorry, but anything that is based on XHTML is not considered as "simple" by Joe User. The basic idea about "(linear, simple, bussiness style) presentations" is that there should be zero extra effort to create them if you already have the wiki context you want to present. I also prefer the presentation to follow the general style set by my preferred theme. All this is accomplished in the single page SlideShow action. Maybe a formatter that can export to this S5 format could be interesting, if there are any good tools (e.g. viewers) for this. -- RobertSeeger 2006-08-24 15:17:52
The viewers are the browsers (Firefox, Opera and many others, except MSIE of course). I am not saying that we should write in XHTML, but that the simple markup we have (= = for h1, * for bullets with indenting, etc.) could be exported to S5.