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Support auto-play

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Enhancement Feature Proposal
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Description

A Zendesk user requested support for automatically advancing the timeline, for a presentation.

While it doesn't seem central to our use cases, it seems pretty easy to implement with a simple option like autoadvance=5 to specify a number of seconds before advancing.

Of course, if implementing this also demands adding play/pause buttons or UX for a general reader to change the speed, etc, it becomes complicated quickly.

Another basic question is "what happens at the end?" and "do we need richer advance speed specification than assuming n seconds?"

Anyway, logging this here for input/prioritization.

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Research direction

No implementation files, tests, or entry points are identified. First clarify the auto-advance option, playback controls or speed configuration, and behavior at the timeline end; done means an agreed, tested auto-play experience for a presentation.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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