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Just use your spacebar and it'll navigate you linearly, taking you down ad across the pseudotree as you need. Edit, or click downarrow, if no spacebar.

CarolineW 10y ago
See my comment here [0] with its genuine, but as yet unanswered question: If you hit space, how do you know you end up seeing every slide? Every seems to be chipping in with these navigation hints, and that's great, but no one seems to answer my question. The site seems to be a triumph of presentation over usability, and I'd really like an insight into the minds of those people who think it's all obvious and usable. For example, someone else said[1] that if you hit ESC you get an overview. How do you find that? What if you don't have an escape key, such as on my tablet? I'm not trying to be grumpy or anti-anything, I'm trying to gain an insight into how people think this is a good thing, and to provide, in return, an insight into why I think it's unusable. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653447 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653323
- DDickson 10y ago
  Slides.com is focused on the presentation. The audience is not typically interacting directly with the deck. When you create a deck, there is a pretty good tutorial explaining how the interface works, including what spacebar and escape do. The real advantage of the service, for me, is the support for embedding any digital media you want into a slide via iFrames, and the ability to use your phone/tablet to advanced slides and see speakers notes if your venue did not provide you with a clicker. It also has another pretty neat feature where audience members can pull up the presentation on their laptops/tablets to follow along, and their slides will automatically advance to match my progress through the deck. I'm just trying to explain why its very much a tool for the presenter, not the presentee. Edit: Slides.com is a locked down instance of reveal.js Here is a link to their deck, explaining all of its features http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
- triplesec 10y ago
  It seemed to me that every time it went sideways, that new vertical had no upper parts to that tree. I wish i could diagram it here, but it seems this one was well-formed. I often check, and after 3 times this happening, I trusted the storyteller. I can' guarantee that another writer wouldn't do this differently as I don't know the tech, but this one seemed well-constructed. Did you not look and see that when you were clicking down and it went sideways to the right, there was no up option on the next slide?
coin 10y ago
What about tablets?
LeifCarrotson 10y ago
I am on mobile, and while there was a set of 4 arrows to navigate vertically and horizontally as required, there was no spacebar equivalent. You had to tap each time to animate in the next bullet point. And you had to differentiate between light brown and slightly lighter brown under your finger to know when you reach the bottom of a column.

CarolineW 10y ago

See my comment here [0] with its genuine, but as yet unanswered question: If you hit space, how do you know you end up seeing every slide? Every seems to be chipping in with these navigation hints, and that's great, but no one seems to answer my question. The site seems to be a triumph of presentation over usability, and I'd really like an insight into the minds of those people who think it's all obvious and usable. For example, someone else said[1] that if you hit ESC you get an overview. How do you find that? What if you don't have an escape key, such as on my tablet? I'm not trying to be grumpy or anti-anything, I'm trying to gain an insight into how people think this is a good thing, and to provide, in return, an insight into why I think it's unusable. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653447 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653447 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653323 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653323

DDickson 10y ago
Slides.com is focused on the presentation. The audience is not typically interacting directly with the deck. When you create a deck, there is a pretty good tutorial explaining how the interface works, including what spacebar and escape do. The real advantage of the service, for me, is the support for embedding any digital media you want into a slide via iFrames, and the ability to use your phone/tablet to advanced slides and see speakers notes if your venue did not provide you with a clicker. It also has another pretty neat feature where audience members can pull up the presentation on their laptops/tablets to follow along, and their slides will automatically advance to match my progress through the deck. I'm just trying to explain why its very much a tool for the presenter, not the presentee. Edit: Slides.com is a locked down instance of reveal.js Here is a link to their deck, explaining all of its features http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/ http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js/#/
triplesec 10y ago
It seemed to me that every time it went sideways, that new vertical had no upper parts to that tree. I wish i could diagram it here, but it seems this one was well-formed. I often check, and after 3 times this happening, I trusted the storyteller. I can' guarantee that another writer wouldn't do this differently as I don't know the tech, but this one seemed well-constructed. Did you not look and see that when you were clicking down and it went sideways to the right, there was no up option on the next slide?

coin 10y ago

What about tablets?

LeifCarrotson 10y ago

I am on mobile, and while there was a set of 4 arrows to navigate vertically and horizontally as required, there was no spacebar equivalent. You had to tap each time to animate in the next bullet point. And you had to differentiate between light brown and slightly lighter brown under your finger to know when you reach the bottom of a column.