Ajax-S - Presentation

Ajax-S is a pretty cool presentation built on the same lines of the S5 Presentation. This presentor as against the S5 uses simple xml files at the back end for the data holding and a xslt parser driven by javascript at the front end. Supports the necessary fileds like

• Page Title
  
• Heading
• Sub Heading
  
• List - ordered
• Paragraph
  
• Text Formatting and
  
• images also
  

with the help of simple xml tags.

Robert says :

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 AsynchronousJavaScript 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 forActiveXObject or XSLTProcessor has to be there.

• Download Ajax-S
• See a demo presentation