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Am I the only one not liking the slides having both vertical and horizonzal navigation? Going through the whole presentation requires going in the right directi

Am I the only one not liking the slides having both vertical and horizonzal navigation? Going through the whole presentation requires going in the right direction (down unless last slide in section, in which case it is right...)

y4mi 10y ago
the right/down/up/left is for the presentator to easily skip to preset positions. as a viewer you can just press space for the traditional progression.
klibertp 10y ago
You can use Space, which should take you to the correct next slide, without thinking about directions. I found it a neat format to structure a talk into segments. Also, you can press Esc and get a "map" of the slides.
- lqdc13 10y ago
  Nope. I used space. After the Erlang slide it moves to the right "tools used", which is the slide on the same level in the next column. This along with back button hijacking makes for the single worst presentation format I've encountered so far. EDIT: it appears that only happens when you have been in that column before. This is still pretty surprising behavior.
  - klibertp 10y ago
    Sorry about that. Maybe some of this behavior is configurable in Reveal.js, I'd need to check. It was fine for me because these are the slides for a talk and I was the one showing them to people. I'd be happy to post the video of the talk (https://www.facebook.com/events/211449562541292/ https://www.facebook.com/events/211449562541292/), but after three months I still haven't heard anything from the people behind the event...
    - lqdc13 10y ago
      No reason to apologize. The content was definitely still viewable.
piotrkubisa 10y ago
It is worthwhile to mention that reveal.js presentation supports PageUp/Down as the keys to go further or backwards.
rch 10y ago
It's a useful feature during the Q&A portion of a presentation, since you might need to move backward and forward through the slides quickly to pull a relevant reference, diagram, or code example. I'd agree that the primary content should be linear.
joelgrus 10y ago
I also hate slide decks that do that. I literally went through this one left to right and thought "wow, that was a really high level overview". Only then I realized I had to hit down some of the time. (And the "you idiot, you weren't using the correct navigation keys" is not a particularly satisfying answer, I navigated with left and right arrows the way I have always navigated slides for years.)
- manufacturious 10y ago
  That strikes me as kinda neat, actually -- is that not the purpose of putting the slides in this order? It's a shortcut to just the topic slides, so you can skim through them even faster and only dig in once you want to.
cuddlybacon 10y ago
I was more annoyed that each slide pushed another entry into the browser navigation history.

y4mi 10y ago

the right/down/up/left is for the presentator to easily skip to preset positions. as a viewer you can just press space for the traditional progression.

klibertp 10y ago

You can use Space, which should take you to the correct next slide, without thinking about directions. I found it a neat format to structure a talk into segments. Also, you can press Esc and get a "map" of the slides.

lqdc13 10y ago
Nope. I used space. After the Erlang slide it moves to the right "tools used", which is the slide on the same level in the next column. This along with back button hijacking makes for the single worst presentation format I've encountered so far. EDIT: it appears that only happens when you have been in that column before. This is still pretty surprising behavior.
- klibertp 10y ago
  Sorry about that. Maybe some of this behavior is configurable in Reveal.js, I'd need to check. It was fine for me because these are the slides for a talk and I was the one showing them to people. I'd be happy to post the video of the talk (https://www.facebook.com/events/211449562541292/ https://www.facebook.com/events/211449562541292/), but after three months I still haven't heard anything from the people behind the event...
  - lqdc13 10y ago
    No reason to apologize. The content was definitely still viewable.

piotrkubisa 10y ago

It is worthwhile to mention that reveal.js presentation supports PageUp/Down as the keys to go further or backwards.

rch 10y ago

It's a useful feature during the Q&A portion of a presentation, since you might need to move backward and forward through the slides quickly to pull a relevant reference, diagram, or code example. I'd agree that the primary content should be linear.

joelgrus 10y ago

I also hate slide decks that do that. I literally went through this one left to right and thought "wow, that was a really high level overview". Only then I realized I had to hit down some of the time. (And the "you idiot, you weren't using the correct navigation keys" is not a particularly satisfying answer, I navigated with left and right arrows the way I have always navigated slides for years.)

manufacturious 10y ago
That strikes me as kinda neat, actually -- is that not the purpose of putting the slides in this order? It's a shortcut to just the topic slides, so you can skim through them even faster and only dig in once you want to.

cuddlybacon 10y ago

I was more annoyed that each slide pushed another entry into the browser navigation history.