Web Browsers as Presentation Systems

There does not appear to be any consensus on appropriate techniques for using browsers in presentations.

We believe the HTML must be authored in such a way that scrolling is not used to display the presentation. Our students, and others, report that this is very distracting.
Best classroom practice seems to be to use a configurable browser, set up so that each HTML "page" is displayed in one full screen of the browser. Pages can then have linking "forward" and "back" buttons. In this way, the presentation approximates the results obtained with conventional packages such as Powerpoint.

In reality, this is simply cajoling the browser into a role it was not designed for, although results can certainly be very good.