Given that the site was around before the ipad was a thing, isn't it more fair to say "iPad doesn't work with this site"?
No. Because the slides have been published to the world wide web, it should follow WWW standards and then it could have been seen in any future device that followed those. Those are the expectations of the publishing platform, which this presentation doesn't follow.
The site instead chooses to break browser compatibility, and therefore many standard actions are impossible:
- Navigating back and forth between slides.
- Selecting text (such as the URL in the first slide, that I had to type in the address bar instead of being able to copy/paste it).
- Deep-linking a URL to any intermediate page (there's a workaround to this, but it's not obvious).
Apparently, its limitations also include not being able to see this simple content in any browser, like the native iOS one.
Now, to go back to the original page you were on before you went to the site, you have to search through your history or click 100x times on the back button.
I also never found a use for deep-linking to an intermediate page.
Useful trick: if you long-press on the back button in most browsers, it shows a list that allows you to jump several pages back.
However, I was not asking for keeping the slide history in the browser history - the presentation doesn't even have back/forward buttons to get back to the previous slide while staying in the page.
> I also never found a use for deep-linking to an intermediate page. It's used for referencing the content of the slide, so that people coming from an external site will see exactly the page that you're talking about.
I hate it when someone quotes some content in a slideshow and link you to the first page, forcing you to guess which part of the file contains the content they're talking about.
I hate
That has nothing to do with browser compatibility, it simply changes the element visibility.
>- Selecting text (such as the URL in the first slide, that I had to type in the address bar instead of being able to copy/paste it).
Works just fine if you press ^C before releasing the mouse button.
>- Deep-linking a URL to any intermediate page (there's a workaround to this, but it's not obvious).
True but again unrelated to browser compatibility.
Although you're right, it's extremely annoying and as stupid as single page apps and infinite scrolling websites.