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WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by jlantunez »

franciscop wrote: post #10

Please make the website more usable. It has a really nice design but poor UX. At least I should be able to scroll to... scroll. And hiding elements until you hover over an invisible part of the screen is totally against a good UX (discoverability). This could be okay in games or in purely artistic webpages, but if you intend your visitors to use the page and read the content it is counterproductive. Edit: being this…

Thanks for your suggestion, franciscop. Check again (desktop view) :) https://webslides.tv/

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#32

Post by jagger27 »

I have a bit of feedback: the scrolljacking doesn't work at all for me in Safari on macOS with a MacBook touchpad. All it does is activate the edge-bounce animation. Chrome is a little janky too, half activating the bounce animation and then advancing to the next slide. Firefox is fine since it doesn't do the edge-bounce.

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.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#33

Post by throwanem »

MarcScott wrote: post #7
jvehent wrote: post #2

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ is my framework of choice when making slides.

And if you're an emacs user there's https://github.com/yjwen/org-reveal/ to make the whole process a little easier using org mode.

Same. I've used that combination for all the presentations I've given since starting at $CURRENT_JOB late in 2015, and have received nothing but compliments on same. I was a little concerned about getting "why didn't you use PowerPoint?" and the like, and prepared to respond with several substantive reasons (not least of which is how much faster org-reveal is!), but it didn't even come up.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#34

Post by jlantunez »

jagger27 wrote: post #32

I have a bit of feedback: the scrolljacking doesn't work at all for me in Safari on macOS with a MacBook touchpad. All it does is activate the edge-bounce animation. Chrome is a little janky too, half activating the bounce animation and then advancing to the next slide. Firefox is fine since it doesn't do the edge-bounce. The worst crime (to me anyway) is the history spam and this applies to all browsers. Hitting bac…

Thanks, jagger27. Touchpad is my priority right now. I'm just a CSS guy :)

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#35

Post by franciscop »

franciscop wrote: post #10

Please make the website more usable. It has a really nice design but poor UX. At least I should be able to scroll to... scroll. And hiding elements until you hover over an invisible part of the screen is totally against a good UX (discoverability). This could be okay in games or in purely artistic webpages, but if you intend your visitors to use the page and read the content it is counterproductive. Edit: being this…

to jlantunez (I cannot reply in your comment), better as I can see the footer now, but it is barely visible, the nav is still hidden and you should probably be listening to the scroll and then scroll the page depending on that, as that's the expected behavior on websites. on('scroll') probably doesn't work as you want to listen for intent, but google gave me really good results on this topic back in the day

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

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Post by godot »

jagger27 wrote: post #32

I have a bit of feedback: the scrolljacking doesn't work at all for me in Safari on macOS with a MacBook touchpad. All it does is activate the edge-bounce animation. Chrome is a little janky too, half activating the bounce animation and then advancing to the next slide. Firefox is fine since it doesn't do the edge-bounce. The worst crime (to me anyway) is the history spam and this applies to all browsers. Hitting bac…

Right. I actually don't mind the 50 history items, but it definitely feels like a bug when the URL changes upon hitting Back but does not update the visible slide.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#38

Post by jagger27 »

jlantunez wrote: post #34
jagger27 wrote: post #32

I have a bit of feedback: the scrolljacking doesn't work at all for me in Safari on macOS with a MacBook touchpad. All it does is activate the edge-bounce animation. Chrome is a little janky too, half activating the bounce animation and then advancing to the next slide. Firefox is fine since it doesn't do the edge-bounce. The worst crime (to me anyway) is the history spam and this applies to all browsers. Hitting bac…

Thanks, jagger27. Touchpad is my priority right now. I'm just a CSS guy :)

It shows! The design is lovely.

Re: WebSlides – Making HTML presentations easy

#39

Post by reagle »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #5
jvehent wrote: post #2

https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/ is my framework of choice when making slides.

reveal.js + pandoc + some customization is what I'm sitting at right now . While I like it a lot, I could imagine that reveal.js's default layout isn't suitable for presentations with lots of details. Also haven't figured out how to jump to a particular slide.

Yes, pandoc can convert from markdown to many slide formats, but reveal.js is my favorite.
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