NYCPHP Meetup

[Greg Rundlett]

S5 http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ by Eric Meyer, is an XHTML/CSS
and JavaScript slideshow system.  Mix in some "presentacular"
(http://labs.cavorite.com/presentacular/ ) js libraries and now you
can use script.aculo.us visual effects in your S5 slide shows.

Since your goal is to create a slideshow that you can share with an
audience while you control the timing, it would seem like you could
possibly create a "S5 remote control" so that you could build on a
widely used project and focus on the one aspect that is missing
without having to bother with the details of actually creating the
x-browser content/slideshow system.

There is another system similar to S5 created by Dave Raggett and
others at the W3C called Slidy. http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/

And Robert Nyman created a spin-off of S5 that already uses Ajax...
except his implementation uses Ajax to retrieve the content (as XML)
from the server rather than to create a controller.
http://robertnyman.com/ajax-s/