Ajax-S: Ajaxian slideshow software

Robert Nyman has released an AJAX-based slideshow package called Ajax-S.

What about Eric Meyers S5 I hear you cry!

Robert mentions that:

The idea came to me because I wanted a lightweight slideshow based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript, but I also wanted to separate the data of each page from the actual code that presents it. Therefore, I decided to move the data into an XML file and then use AJAX to retrieve it. The name AJAX-S is short for AJAX-Slides (or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML Slides, if you want to).

Naturally, one of my inspirations for creating a HTML-based slideshow are from Eric Meyer and his S5. However, I wanted to take it one notch further, to make it more flexible and also usable for people with no HTML knowledge whatsoever. Another motivating factor was to just transform the data for the current page, as opposed to creating all the HTML needed for all the pages when the page is initially loaded. A leaner end user experience, basically.

It only works in IE 6 and Mozilla-based web browsers as of now. This is because of the need to do on the fly transformations on the client, which means the necessary support for ActiveXObject or XSLTProcessor has to be there.

• Download Ajax-S
• See a demo presentation

Presentacular: S5 + script.aculo.us

Juan Manuel Caicedo actually tweaked S5 itself to create Presentacular.

He munged script.aculo.us into , allowing you to use their effects within your presentation.

View a demo of a Presentacular presentation