I generally write my presentations up in [[LaTeX]] and use [beamer][]
to convert them to PDFs for display.  I don't really like PDFs though,
they're big and unwieldy.  I was just looking around at alternative
methods and ran across the older [Linux for Presentations
Mini-HOWTO][howto] which lists a number of HTML-based presentation
formats.  This is definately the way to go, and with MathML (via
itex2MML, see my [[mdwn_itex]] post for details) I can generate most
of the equations that I need to fit into a standard presentation.

The two grandaddy frameworks are [S5][] and [Slidy][].  S5 goes back
to 2004, and Slidy has been around since 2005, so they both go back a
ways.  The code you'll be writing is fairly similar in each of them,
so just pick whichever you like best.  If it matters to you, Slidy is
a [W3C recommendation][w3c]

However, neither of these early projects seem to be actively
developed.  For example, [this thread][thread] on the [S5 Project
Google group][s5group] discusses fracturing in the S5 community.  As
people try to work around issues with the older frameworks, they've
written up new frameworks. [S6][] wiki has some [pointers to other
options][pointers].

Personally, I'm going to go with [S6][], since the project uses Git
for version control which is a *Good Thing*.  There's also [S9][],
which lets you build S6 presentations with some sort of wiki-syntax
instead of HTML, if that's appealing to you.  If you need MathML on
Firefoxes before version 4 (which includes HTML 5 support), you'll
need a framework like Slidy that supports XHTML.

Finally, there's a [webslideshow][] Google group that tracks
developments in this area.

Good luck!

[beamer]: https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home
[howto]: http://www.shallowsky.com/linux/LinuxPresentations.html
[S5]: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
[Slidy]: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/
[w3c]: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/
[thread]: http://groups.google.com/group/s5project/browse_thread/thread/2b6c0a5c14e1b997
[s5group]: http://groups.google.com/group/s5project/
[S6]: https://github.com/geraldb/s6
[pointers]: https://github.com/geraldb/slideshow/wiki
[S9]: http://slideshow.rubyforge.org/
[webslideshow]: http://groups.google.com/group/webslideshow

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