Ah, it's a slideshow without mouse controls. Felt stupid for a good five minutes while testing in various browsers, just trying to get /something/ to work. Not a great experience.
Not to mention that using the left and right arrow keys pushes the current page onto your browser history which is unnecessary. It's far easier to go back/forward with the arrow keys you're already using, plus it'd be nice to be able to click the browser's back button to return to the site that linked to the presentation.
And I'm sure the goal of the design was for you to have a great experience. (Remember: talks are primarily for the audience at the venue that the talk is given at. Posting online is an afterthought, because people always seem to ask, "can you post your slides".)
This perfectly illustrates something I said earlier about the difference between an OS with well defined UI standards, and one where the developers just do whatever the hell they want.
I boldly asserted that in such an environment, the developers will implement the one method of control that makes sense to them, and ignore all the other options, which means the user has to try everything they can think of until they hit on the right combo, which can take a while, leading to frustration.
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Developer Driven Development. Interesting concept... "dumb ideas are not worked on" wonderful. Nirvana?
What I think is that development works best when the developers understand the problem. No methodology is a substitute for an actual understanding of what you're trying to achieve and why you're trying to achieve it.
Of course, developers understand the issues that effect developers. So of course they will be happiest (most effective?) fixing the problems they are themselves the client for. Also, this removes a layer or two of communication, since you don't need to have the customer talk to the developer, or have a Business Analyst interrogate the customer and then translate it into programmer-ese.
If you understand the problem, you can tell which are the dumb ideas (sometimes you figure this out retroactively). If you don't understand the problem, you're simply not qualified to judge which are the dumb ideas.
I couldn't get it to work in Opera 11 nor Firefox 3.6.13 (on Windows), it just sat there at "loading presentation..." with a big red "slides" button-lookalike on top.
