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Eric Meyer, the great CSS guru, has come out with an equally great standards-based HTML presentation software. Consisting of some snippets of Javascript for page navigation and CSS for presentation, it turns a simple page of markup into an elegant slideshow.

Demo of the system is here. Go ahead, load up the demo, then select “View Source” from the browser to see how clean the markup is.

This system has a few advantages over PowerPoint:

• It’s HTML, so you don’t have to buy the PowerPoint software to create or view the slides. This makes it easier to share your presentation with other users.
• If you’re already familiar with HTML, it makes it even easier to create presentations.
• It can display any information you can embed in a browser. Embed hyperlinks to escape out to other webpages instead of clumsily toggling between applications halfway through your presentation.
• It doesn’t (yet) support animated transitions from slide to slide. (That’s a feature because I find animations always distract from the presentation.)

It just occurred to me that this post would make a great S5 presentation.