Skip to the demo (in case you get distracted by the colours and other aspects of the website and lose interest): https://author.quickpoint.me/demo/story
A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser
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#12Feedback: navigation within a slide deck needs to happen with `history.replaceState` not `history.pushState` so that it is possible to leave the page again after scrolling around a bit. As it is the back button forces me to back out through my entire scroll history to get to the web page I was previously on which is an anger-inducing experience I would not want to subject others to. As mentioned if plain text is your…
Yeah, same problem here. this was annoying enough for me to close the browser and give up.
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#13Love the demo!
Re: A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser
#14Feedback: navigation within a slide deck needs to happen with `history.replaceState` not `history.pushState` so that it is possible to leave the page again after scrolling around a bit. As it is the back button forces me to back out through my entire scroll history to get to the web page I was previously on which is an anger-inducing experience I would not want to subject others to. As mentioned if plain text is your…
We need to remove the entire History API from the web.
Bring back the back button!
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#15In step 46 of the demo walkthrough, the little popup bubble says "Viola!.". The word you're looking for there is "Voilà!" (minus the extraneous period)
Seems like an interesting project and I can see the appeal to markdown aficionados (me among them, although I don't currently have much need to do presentations)!
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#16"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." Very plain text! But I'm not sure what the point was.
What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing
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#17"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." Very plain text! But I'm not sure what the point was.
What is the definition of plain text? There is hardly any such thing
? A series of unicode characters with no graphics or code beyond the application (here, a web browser) that displays it. It's quite common, I'd argue.
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#19Skip to the demo (in case you get distracted by the colours and other aspects of the website and lose interest): https://author.quickpoint.me/demo/story
It won't even open on mobile if the page hasn't been loaded in landscape orientation.
This seems to be all about being flashy and JS-heavy, rather than just getting the point across.