[S5-discuss] URL hash updating for Gecko; "back one slide" mouse button

[ryan king]

On Jul 26, 2006, at 3:48 AM, Myk Melez wrote:

> I'm glad to see s5project.org get underway!  I've been hacking on  
> s5 for about a day now, not because I saw the new site but because  
> I noticed some problems while working on my OSCON presentation and  
> decided to fix them.
>
> Sounds like the new version of s5 is significantly revised, so  
> perhaps this patch isn't relevant anymore, but here it is just in  
> case.

That's fine. If we want to include these features/fixes, I'll work to  
apply the patch.

> I've done two things:
> Turned on URL hash updating for Gecko browsers, so reloading your  
> presentation takes you back to the slide you were on instead of the  
> first slide.

Cool.

This actually brings up a question I have for Eric:

It appears that updating the fragment identifier on the URL was  
turned on only for Opera ( see [http://hg.s5project.org/s5-main? 
f=7d10fbda8272;file=ui/default/slides.js] line 156). Why?

> My copy of Firefox seems to handle this just fine.

> Made the middle mouse button mean "go back one slide".  I'm going  
> to be running my presentation from a wireless mouse, and while  
> there's a way to go forward with the mouse (left button click), I  
> couldn't find an easy way to go back.  The middle button seems like  
> the right one to use, since the right button's existing function  
> (show context menu) is much more commonly used than the middle  
> button's function (on my Linux box, "paste text" from X clipboard).

Sounds reasonable and useful to me. Anyone have objections to adding  
this?

-ryan