Ideally I wanted some wiki format -> HTML5 sweet animation generator, that also could output a PDF.<p>I looked at the ancient S5:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/<p>But even Eric Meyers is back to using Keynote now:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2010/05/07/web-2-0-talk-html5-vs-flash/<p>What do you use for presentations at Conferences?
<a href="http://prezi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://prezi.com/</a> ... most interesting thing to come to presentations in a looong time. Check out their take on Pecha-Kucha:<p><a href="http://prezi.com/j9anrjn-gdwj/prezi-pecha-kucha-bw/" rel="nofollow">http://prezi.com/j9anrjn-gdwj/prezi-pecha-kucha-bw/</a><p>Danger is that you'll spend all your time futzing with the style and not put in enough substance.
Prezi. I like their canvas style approach. You can really get the big picture that way. Although I kind of agree that it's easy to get lost in styling, I do think it's better that I get lost than my audience. It's a real attention-grabber, I know from experience.
I've used beamer on occasion and think its great, albeit because I use LaTeX elsewhere:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beamer_(LaTeX)</a><p>If you want to go the HTML5 route, I'm guessing pulling the relevant code out of the Google presentation highlighting HTML5 features would be a good exercise; source at: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/html5-slides/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/html5-slides/</a><p>For pure wiki syntax, I'd go with Pandoc which allows conversion to both S5 and PDF from a variety of markup languages:
<a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/" rel="nofollow">http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/</a>
Although not exactly the right answer, but it might give some of you a few ideas.
Here's a presentation that WebkitGtk's maintainer did for GCDS 2009: <a href="http://webkitgtk.org/gcds.html" rel="nofollow">http://webkitgtk.org/gcds.html</a><p>And I use Beamer (Latex) myself because of the equations...
If you follow the "Present like Jobs" school, then Keynote is all you need.<p>Of course, most people would rather futz with their animations than rehearse.
check out: <a href="http://wziwyo.com/?p=177" rel="nofollow">http://wziwyo.com/?p=177</a>
I create and present with Keynote on iPad, works great.<p>Before iPad, I used <a href="http://280slides.com/" rel="nofollow">http://280slides.com/</a> on my Thinkpad.
I find Prezi very nice - although it doesnt meet your wiki to html5 generation critieria. <a href="http://prezi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://prezi.com/</a>