S5 Halloween Theme



A while ago Eric Meyer designed a really nice
standards
compliant HTML based presentation tool called S5, and has been improving it
ever since. The only complaint I have about it is that the default theme was so
ugly that I just avoided using it (bad first impression) even though it is all
CSS based and thus easy to make it look however you want if you’ve got any CSS
skills.



Well, I need to put together a new presentation on unit testing (much to my
dismay no-one seems to have a clue what mock objects are) and the latest version
of S5 just has WAY too many cool features to pass up. There are presenters
notes, info that’ll only be displayed when you do a handout, and much more. The
handout functionality was especially nice because now I can make the displayed
visuals nice and terse but have printouts include all the discussions I’d be
having during the presentation.



I’ve taken a look at the latest version (1.2a), fixed a JavaScript bug in Mac
Firefox, and given it a Halloween theme that looks like this:




So, if you’d like an HTML based presentation tool check out S5. If you’d like
one with a Halloween theme, you can grab my copy here. Please note it is based
on an alpha version so there may be other bugs hiding in there, and I haven’t
tested this in anything other than Firefox on the mac but it should work
elsewhere. If S5 has progressed to a final 1.2 or beyond you should be able to
just drop the ui folder from mine into the latest version to get the Halloween
theme.