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Re:Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built s... by ericmcer on Monday April 06, 2026 @05:26PM (#47667368)
Really cool, like others are saying this makes you feel like you are interacting with all the pages at once instead of one page at a time.

I did notice that forward doesn't seem to work. I.E. If I click into a page, it zooms in, press back it zooms back out, press forward it flickers the url but doesn't have normal forward behavior.

I also don't know if you want to support `open in new tab` but that would be a hard req for many people.

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Re:Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built s... by tinchox6 on Monday April 06, 2026 @05:41PM (#47667570)
Good catch on forward navigation. Architecturally I don't keep a history of already-visited views, so forward has nowhere to go. It's something worth tackling though, especially for programmatic navigation flows. Open in new tab is on my radar too.
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Re:Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built s... by ericmcer on Monday April 06, 2026 @06:22PM (#47668111)
Under the hood aren't you pushing things into the browser history as navigation happens? I wouldn't try to rewrite the history api myself but just make sure you `pushState()` as navigation happens.
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