A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser

by edoloughlinon 10/11/2024, 11:40 AMwith 35 comments

by conartist6on 10/11/2024, 2:31 PM

Feedback: navigation within a slide deck needs to happen with `history.replaceState` not `history.pushState` so that it is possible to leave the page again after scrolling around a bit. As it is the back button forces me to back out through my entire scroll history to get to the web page I was previously on which is an anger-inducing experience I would not want to subject others to.

As mentioned if plain text is your goal it would be really nice if there were some way to serve the content as plain HTML as a backup

by phyzomeon 10/11/2024, 2:10 PM

"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."

Very plain text! But I'm not sure what the point was.

by hliyanon 10/11/2024, 3:43 PM

Skip to the demo (in case you get distracted by the colours and other aspects of the website and lose interest): https://author.quickpoint.me/demo/story

by pmontraon 10/11/2024, 3:20 PM

Black on blue/purple (what color is that?) and viceversa are probably fashionable but not the most readable combinations. For sure they are a way to force readers to put extra effort into reading so maybe it's a deliberate choice: whoever gets the point is really interested. Survivor bias.

by settsuon 10/11/2024, 3:59 PM

In step 46 of the demo walkthrough, the little popup bubble says "Viola!.". The word you're looking for there is "VoilĂ !" (minus the extraneous period)

Seems like an interesting project and I can see the appeal to markdown aficionados (me among them, although I don't currently have much need to do presentations)!

by gregorywegoryon 10/11/2024, 1:15 PM

short stories look nice on mobile..

https://quickpoint.me/greg/thoughts/howtosurvivethemachineag...

by tantaloron 10/11/2024, 3:04 PM

Trying the demo. Seems broken. Type text and nothing shows up:

https://imgur.com/a/XD7KZNj

by Kailhuson 10/11/2024, 7:52 PM

I think the main page overlay needs 100dvh rather vh unit to account for mobile devices with navigation bars

by johneaon 10/11/2024, 6:58 PM

Yea, I think it's called writing and reading...

More lost civilization...

by adamgordonbellon 10/11/2024, 3:50 PM

Love the demo!

by hyperhelloon 10/11/2024, 2:46 PM

Please, whatever you’re doing, hire a professional.