"Go back" in the browser - Lots of similar pages

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"Go back" in the browser - Lots of similar pages

michelebs

Dear senshu,

I have downloaded Sozi a couple of days ago, and I'm getting familiar with it: really it seems an interesting thing, thank you for your work.

Only, I have noticed that when I open the browser to run a Sozi sequence, every step of the sequence creates a new page in the history, identical to the previous ones. So, if a webpage contains a Sozi frame (yet with autoplay), when I try to go back to any previous different webpage (other websites, etc.), in fact I have to clic "Go back" in the browser as many times as Sozi has run a slide-changing till then:

https://i.postimg.cc/Kv1wZBqL/Sozi.png

I think this is natural for the way Sozi is designed, but, I guess, is it possible to avoid this problem? If I want to go to a previous webpage, possibly I have to clic Go-back dozens of times...

Thank you!

senshu

michelebs I think this is natural for the way Sozi is designed, but, I guess, is it possible to avoid this problem? If I want to go to a previous webpage, possibly I have to clic Go-back dozens of times...

The problem is that users may have different expectations with respect to how the "back" button should behave.

For some users, it will be natural to use the "back" button to move back in the presentation, considering that each frame is equivalent to a separate web page.
Sozi is currently designed with this assumption, and the browser's location bar shows a different URL for each frame.

But if you consider that playing the presentation is equivalent to "scrolling" in a web page, then Sozi should not mess with the location bar, the history and the "back" button.

I have two proposals that could help with this issue:

Show the frame title in the history in addition to the presentation title. This will prevent having a long sequence of identical entries in the history.
Add a setting in the presentation editor to let the creator of a presentation decide how to manage the "back" button and the browser's location bar.

senshu

I have created two new feature requests:

michelebs

Thank you senshu, you have comprehended the issue.

It would be beautiful to have both the two new features added to Sozi.