As a quick test, I decided to test a feature which I consider 100% vital to any presentation tool. Does it cleanly work when I find myself on a 800x600, or even 640x480, projector?
html5 slides (from google) : No
Slides Presentation with HTML5: No
CSSS : Unusably slow on Chrome 18, pegs to 100% CPU
html5rocks: No. I can't actually get the presentation to view on my laptop at all.
Impress.js: No
Reveal.js: No
Shower (mentioned in comments): Yes!
I would really, really like to switch to HTML presentations. At the moment I use keynote and it is the one thing stopping me from switching full-time mac os x -> linux. But, really I don't think most of these can be considered as more than just toys.
Hopefully some time we will get a nice shiny tool, which will allow easy simple animation, presentation tools, and resize to different projector sizes.
On another note, the actual blog post this is based on was terrible - just listing a bunch of tools, all of which are (in my opinion) terrible, was not particularly useful. However, I am now going to look at shower.
I think most of these are too heavy for my use. I've been helping out on a simplistic slideshow tool using Markdown, which might interest some of you: https://github.com/gnab/remark
Zero server-side dependencies is what sets Remark apart from other alternatives using markdown. The markdown is simply parsed client-side. (and kjbekkelund: get back to work ;)
Hopefully some time we will get a nice shiny tool, which will allow easy simple animation, presentation tools, and resize to different projector sizes.
On another note, the actual blog post this is based on was terrible - just listing a bunch of tools, all of which are (in my opinion) terrible, was not particularly useful. However, I am now going to look at shower.