Download the single file below and open it in any modern browser — it's the document, the viewer and the editor in one. Shipped files self-update through the signed release channel.
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A laser pointer while you present. Press L in the slideshow and the
cursor becomes a red dot trailing a short comet tail, for pointing at the
thing you are talking about. Press L again to put it away. It is presenter
equipment, not deck content: nothing about it is written into the file, so a
deck you point at is byte-identical to one you did not. -
Decks thumbnail properly on iPhone and iPad. 1.0.11 taught files to draw
a picture of page one in Finder, and it worked everywhere except the platform
most likely to need it — iOS renders neither a page's JavaScript nor its
<noscript>, so a deck in Files stayed the same dark box. The preview is now
ordinary markup followed by a script that removes it before the browser paints
a frame, which the thumbnailer keeps and every reader never sees. Existing
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Count-up numbers keep their thousands separators. A number written
1,234counted up to1.234and stayed wrong once the animation finished;
1,234,567became1.2340000. Numbers now settle exactly as you typed them,
in your own convention —1,234.5and1.234,5both survive, and a sentence
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The tab tells you which file you are editing. A deck's title and its file
name drift apart constantly — rename the deck and the file on disk keeps its
old name — and only one of them answers what does ⌘S overwrite? The tab and
a small chip beside the title now show the file, whenever the two differ. -
Save offers the file you are looking at. Opening
Q3-board.bento.html
and pressing ⌘S used to propose savingBento_Slides_Showcase.bento.html—
the name was built from the deck's title, so an ordinary save quietly
suggested a second file beside the real one. It now offers the file you
actually opened. (Exports — share copies, templates — still name themselves;
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Drop a deck onto an open editor to switch to it. With a deck already open,
dragging another.bento.htmlin from Finder opens it in place of the current
one. On Chrome and Edge it arrives with permission to write back, so ⌘S saves
it without a dialog — which a deck opened by double-clicking cannot do, since
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Release notes in the About dialog get room to be read. An available
update is now one card — version, what changed, and the two ways to take it —
and the notes are a real list inside their own scroll region rather than a
140px porthole in a dialog that was itself scrolling. The dialog is 440px
wide instead of 360 (capped to the viewport, so a 375px phone keeps its
gutters), which is enough that the five bullets a release carries fit whole
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Turkmen, taking the language packs to 22. Contributed and reviewed by a
native speaker (Mekan Soltanov), and the only pack currently complete against
the whole interface. Install it from the globe menu → Manage languages. -
Save a copy, set a password or reach version history from a phone. The
Save button's caret does not fit beside a 44px target, which left every file
operation behind it unreachable on a phone — save a copy, duplicate as a new
deck, the password actions, version history and the JSON round-trip. They now
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Fix: the current slide's thumbnail stays visible. Walking a long deck with
the arrow keys scrolled the canvas but not the sidebar, so the highlighted
thumbnail wandered off-screen. Contributed by Yishen Tu. -
Fix: the auto-save tip pointed at the wrong menu. It said version history
lived in About; it moved to the Save menu several releases ago.