I want them to either:

- Go back to previous page and click another image.

- View the rest of the slideshow gallery.

It's up to them in the end.

Haha, well "horrible" is a pretty big word.

Jumping to a certain image in a slide show isn't so bad is it?

I'm looking for some kind of alternative here.

I've seen the New Yorker iPad app display slideshows in a different browser within the folio.

How do they do that?

Thanks, Julien.

You think a fullscreen slideshow is a bad experience?

Well I don't agree. I want a fullscreen slideshow.

You see it in a lot of magazines and for me personally, as for other people I've talked to about iPad magazines, a fullscreen slideshow isn't a bad experience at all.

You call it "taking readers to a fullscreen and leaving them on their own" but that sounds a bit exaggerated to me.

You can always go back.

Isn't it the same as with a slideshow on one page? You cover the entire page with your slide show and then it feels the same. The only possibility to go back is pressing a back button to exit the slideshow.

I'm trying to do it on one page now as you say, it works out pretty good.

But, as you have to create an object state where the slideshow isn't visibile at all, and you have an object state for each slide.

So, 1 object state in which the slideshow isn't visible.

6 object states for 6 slides.

7 object states in total.

But you can't put the swipe function on since object state 1, in which the slideshow isn't visible, will pass and that isn't supposed to happen.

So I've made buttons within the slide object states where you can go back and forth. In the first slide you can only go forth, and in the last slide only back.

Good idea?

Any alternative? Like viewing the slideshow in a different browser? Not a different page but a different browser.

I've seen the New Yorker do it all the time. It's just like you go to the in-app browser to view a webpage, but only then it shows a gallery in which you can swipe through.

Thanks, Julien.

Image1: Article with slideshow icon (camera in the lower left corner)

Image2: Slideshow in an in-app browser with "Done" button.

Great! Thanks Bob.

I may try that some time, but for now I think I will go with the object state solution on the same page I described in my previous post.

I won't have any caption though, only an exit button and navigational buttons.

So that's what I call fullscreen actually, with some black around the image though, but still, how is that different

Anyway thanks for your help!