Internet Slideshows
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
Auto advance is just behind malware installers or goatpr0n in making sure I'll never return to a site again.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
Imagine if all apps adopted this style of presentation. Word documents would automatically scroll downwards, and you'd have to make sure you typed fast enough to keep up. :) Wizards would just assume default options and move onto the next step every 5 seconds. Installations would briefly display a license agreement and automatically click accept. Oh, hang on, scrub that one, that's just what happens anyway.
Simon
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
Trevortni wrote:
let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous.
I give 30 seconds for a pretty picture and 2.5 seconds for advanced Integral Calculus and 3D/4D Physics. ;P I used the auto-advance once many years ago, and then revisiting myself several months later I realized I read it at a different speed, and caught on then this was a bad idea. Let the reader sit and soak in the image/math and move on at their own speed. I only use the auto-time features now to prepare for conference presentations, and even then I keep my finger on the pause button. :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
I was thinking the same thing. It's pretty obnoxious to move to the next slide when I haven't even finished reading it yet. Made me feel like a r-tard for reading so slow, when in actuality I was distracted by the pictures and shiny clicky things. :)
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
I thought it was lame even without the auto-advance bit. Rather than spending a few paragraphs on the horribly sparse and generic "mistakes", it used the "slideshow" format to drag it out over ten pages. Presumably, this was supposed to give me more time to read the ads or something. Instead, i just closed the page when the first two slides failed to grab my attention.
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I thought it was lame even without the auto-advance bit. Rather than spending a few paragraphs on the horribly sparse and generic "mistakes", it used the "slideshow" format to drag it out over ten pages. Presumably, this was supposed to give me more time to read the ads or something. Instead, i just closed the page when the first two slides failed to grab my attention.
Even if you don't read the ads the site is still getting an extra 9 displays from anyone else who visits. X| Edit: OTOH in the (unlikely) instance I revisit the site I often express my disgust at obnoxious design features by adblocking everything.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
I agree, that's exactly what I was thinking when I followed the link this morning. It's enough to make me close that page and move on elsewhere.
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
Sorry about that -- I was thinking the same thing, and pretty much didn't include it in the newsletter, but left it in after making a careful deliberation (aka, flipped a coin). I'll leave those out in the future (unless they smarten up and go with manual advance)
-------------- TTFN - Kent
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Does anybody else find it annoying when you get a link to a slideshow on some random website which is set to automatically advance the slideshow? I clicked through the "10 most common database mistakes" link in the most recent Code Project e-mail, among other links, and by the time I got around to that particular window, I was faced with a screen showing me "other slideshows like this one." It wasn't until I clicked through one that looked interesting, and it started advancing before I was done reading, that I realized I had completely missed the one I had originally clicked on. It seems to me that this is a horrible practice. Sure, the auto-advance feature is nifty and all, but it seems the height of arrogance to assume that the viewer will solely focus on your slideshow rather than one of the other - let's see here.... 12 windows (I've already finished and closed a few) they might have open at a given time; and the assumption that even the totally committed reader will finish digesting your possibly transcendent information in the 2.5 seconds they grant you to read a slide seems ludicrous. Am I alone here, or does this seem like a presentation model to be deprecated in favor of setting the default to not auto-advance, and only moving the reader to speed-read mode if he chooses it?
Another issue is a slideshow on a crappy screen design. By the time I found the slideshow window, it was already half over. Kill the slideshow...
