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by kamiyo 1409 days ago
I guess I wasn't clear on the zoom. The zoom can be activated in the settings - but it's not a user-controlled zoom. Every new slide, it chooses a random set of bounds to display, if the image is larger than your viewport. I wanted to be surprised in seeing random closeup portions of those large images (especially the Carina and SMACS 0723 images), because there is so much detail that you miss otherwise.

If you want a user-zoomable interface, the official Webb site actually has them, for example: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery/zoomable...

As far as a next and prev, that would be easy, but I guess since the slideshow is only X seconds per slide, I didn't think it would be that necessary (at least to my use case) to skip or go back.