"Two dimensional navigation for a slide deck would be really helpful, discoverable, and useful."
- no one ever
Look Ma, no OS
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Re: Look Ma, no OS
#12This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
similarly at first it confused me, but now I understand it is like a table of contents which is useful and easy to use.
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#13The next logical step is to elide the virtualized network and disk interfaces, and then we're back to shared hosting! See you again in twenty years.
But hopefully with a smaller stack?? :)
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#14"Two dimensional navigation for a slide deck would be really helpful, discoverable, and useful." - no one ever
I would have never said that, but now that I've come across it a few times, I think it's great – easy to get an overview of high level topics and dig into those that are interesting. Definitely not very discoverable, but pretty useful.
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#15This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
similarly at first it confused me, but now I understand it is like a table of contents which is useful and easy to use.
Or you could put a TOC at the beginning (you know, like in a book) and do no sliding at all.
-> No confusion, great overview, direct jumps with hyperlinks, easy to realize with pure HTML.
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#16The next logical step is to elide the virtualized network and disk interfaces, and then we're back to shared hosting! See you again in twenty years.
Yep. I don't get the value in this, pushing the problem somewhere else just creates new problems. Instead of being able to rely on distributions and gargantuan open software, now we go off and roll it all ourselves?
This is a good path to job security, but I don't see what else.
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#17This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
Oh! You go down until you run out of slides then you go right.
I didn't spend enough time to figure that out. I just assumed that the audio piece that went along with the slide deck wasn't uploaded and closed my browser.
I don't think this is intuitive enough.
If your slide deck needs a secondary nav, it probably shouldn't be a slide deck.
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#18This has to be one of the worst UIs for a slide deck. "Why aren't these questions being answered?" ... "Oh, the slide advance UI changes. Too inconspicuous."
I'm shocked that the top two HN comments as of writing are bikeshedding the submission's web design.
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#19Am I the only one who can't find Part 2?
Re: Look Ma, no OS
#20Am I the only one who can't find Part 2?
Right arrow will until you see the chipmunk, then down. (I Think.)