Give each page in a deck its own URL.
- To allow linking from any other site to a specific page within a deck
- To allow reload of specific page in 'fullscreen' after editing
- To align with the restfulness of the interwebs and all that jazz and of course it should be aligned with internal(relative) links
Gunnar Djurberg
shared this idea
This has been a frequent request so we turned on unique URLs on the standard presentation pages a week ago. If you go to a deck, like http://slides.com/news/overpass/, the URL will update with each slide navigation.
We may revisit this to use the history API at a later point as that would produce nicer URLs while not filling up the browser history.
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indolering
commented
I don't think it would be a bad thing for the browser history to get "polluted" as you say, I would expect the back button to go back a slide....
Regardless of your stance on the history, you can manage the browser history independently from the URL itself using the history API.
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Kenny Hirschmann
commented
Regardless of how the URL is handled, there should be a way to create a secondary internal navigation scheme. Whether that means linking to anchors or using javascript, there should be some way to do it.
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Gunnar Djurberg
commented
That is great. And it works with fullscreen URLs as well.
It still behaves a bit strange though since the page-specific URL remains as you navigate to other pages. The "arrow navigation" inside a deck does not involve URLs. And I don't agree that individual slide changes are "polution" to browser history - I think unique URLs per page is how history and URLs should work.
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Gunnar Djurberg
commented
If this is hard to combine with transition effects etc - there could be two parallel views - with effects and a single url for deck - one without and just single pages linking to other single pages.