Opera Show Format

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The Opera Show Format (OSF) is a set of conventions used in a web page using XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.1. It is designed to allow presentations to be easily created with web authoring tools. OSF requires that a number of meta tags be present, including version, generator, author, and presdate (the creation or presentation date). The entire presentation, including all slides and images (in data:urls) is contained in a single file. The look of all slides is controlled by the layout section, contained in a <div class="layout"> element. The slides themselves are contained in a presentation section contained in a <div class="presentation"> element. Each slide is contained in a <div class="slide"> element.

In addition to the Opera web browser, the S5 file format is compatible with the Opera Show Format, and can be used on additional browsers.

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The Slide Show (S9) Ruby gem lets you author Opera Show Format-compatible presentations in plain text using a wiki-style markup language that's easy-to-write and easy-to-read.