The worst crime (to me anyway) is the history spam and this applies to all browsers. Hitting back changes the URL but not the slide that's shown, curiously. If you're going to go this route, that's fine, just update the visible slide.
I would prefer if it didn't make me jump 50 history items back to get to where I came from.
+1 for being vocal
No wonder, valley is full of bullies who just did 10000 hours of practise but 0 hours of being human.
[1] http://formidable.com/open-source/spectacle/ [2] https://github.com/thejameskyle/spectacle-code-slide
e.g. http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/2
(Hi from a fellow enthusiast)
Edit: being this a project for making slides on a website with such a poor UX gives a really bad feeling for your potential clients. Will the project itself have the same problems? Will I be trying to hurry to finish the presentation and not find a button to save as PDF because it's invisible? etc
Edit: the link was changed from the website to the github.com, this comment was intended for the original URL: https://webslides.tv/
Browsing the web is pretty mouse/trackpad driven. Especially for landing sites like this. It just felt un-intuitive.
https://bost.ocks.org/mike/scroll/
Basically, don't mess with built-in scrolling functionality - just change how your page renders based on scroll position.
Would be awesome to get some more contributors.. hrmf, I mean, users. :)
However, what's the difference between this tool and https://slides.com/ (and it's MIT open sourced at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/) ?
EDIT: not saying you should not create this tool...but what was the motivation? (or the differentiation factors?)
Slides.com is an great tool. WebSlides is a solution for making presentations, landings, and long-forms. It's also a starting point for building custom CSS frameworks.
For more on why I decided to build WebSlides check out this post: https://medium.com/p/fa7a9e37ff97/ Thanks!
It also has markdown based slides but syncs the presentation to clients via websockets, and allows for interactive slides with things like Polls and live chats.
You can use the same mechanism to have the presentation on a computer connected to your projector and control the slides from your phone (or any other computer)
If your goal is to build a platform for presentations like medium is for articles, isn't that what speakerdeck.com already is? If you want to build a better speakerdeck, just say that then? "A better way to create and share slides online"
Like if I want to migrate away for those bloated un-diffable PDFs and DOCXs to a HTML?
Preferably it should support importing from those 2 formats.
I don't make a lot of presentations, but the fact I could figure out a lot of it in minutes makes this attractive. I definitely see it as a web tool more than a marketing / management tool. If I showed our marketing dept markup they'd have a conniption fit.
Also, it can be a powerful tool when you want the audience to pay attention to you and not the slides (if you need to go off-script for example).
There is of course other opinion, that it can be more distracting, but it depends on material and speaker: http://www.mrmediatraining.com/2011/03/29/powerpoint-why-you...
