Also, you can use the arrow keys to go back and forth through the slides.
Yes all those options work. But why remove a common method of navigation? In addition, the format makes it impossible to search for text within the presentation.
Because it wasn't 'removed', rather it wasn't 'created'. You seem to be missing that supporting this feature is extra work and not 'built in' to the way the project is constructed. The author didn't sit there and say, well, fuck the wheel, I'll just throw in a line of code here to disable it, just to piss people off.
Re:Twelve Go Best Practices
by stock_toaster on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @02:16PM
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Doesn't work super well on mobile though.
You don't need the scroll wheel to navigate the presentation. Click on the right side of the slide to go forward, on the left side to go back.
> Honestly, who thinks this stuff is a good idea?
People who are making presentations to deliver in an in-person setting where putting them on the web for everyone is a secondary use, not the primary use? I mean, looking at that, it would be a lot better as the visual component of an in-person presentation than it is on its own (though its not without value on its own.)