Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different

Post by tinchox6 » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

TheTaytay wrote: post #20

This is indeed seriously impressive. I keep wanting to keep my entire knowledgebase on a canvas so that I can "think" or navigate spatially. Thisis neat. In the main landing page, as I was clicking around, I kept wishing to have a legend to show me either "how deep I am" or "how do I get out of here?", and like someone else commented, I would love an affordance showing me what was clickable/zoomable.

Post by theflyinghorse » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 9:55 PM UTC

Post by ericmcer » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 10:22 PM UTC

tinchox6 wrote: post #32

ericmcer wrote: post #24

Really cool, like others are saying this makes you feel like you are interacting with all the pages at once instead of one page at a time. I did notice that forward doesn't seem to work. I.E. If I click into a page, it zooms in, press back it zooms back out, press forward it flickers the url but doesn't have normal forward behavior. I also don't know if you want to support `open in new tab` but that would be a hard r…

Good catch on forward navigation. Architecturally I don't keep a history of already-visited views, so forward has nowhere to go. It's something worth tackling though, especially for programmatic navigation flows. Open in new tab is on my radar too.

Post by handfuloflight » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:57 PM UTC

Post by tinchox6 » Tue, Apr 07, 2026, 12:10 AM UTC

tosti wrote: post #2

This looks seriously impressive. Also, I wonder what the a11y implications are. I don't miss Macromedia Flash hell at all. This is HTML5, so with a bit of effort it could look beautiful and still cater to the visually impaired. Edit: I can't scroll any of the showcases. Probably deliberate, but a cut-off UI can be annoying. Edit2: I opened the yellow car on the production line and going back the page got all offscree…