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> You can get it to do anything you want.

But in addition it should generally do what users expect. If the dots aren't clickable, why are they there?

The dots are much more a visual cue than a means of navigation.

I understand what you're describing to be their purpose. But the first thing I tried to do was click on them, and got confused/frustrated when they didn't do anything. This tells me their purpose is not in line with what I (and possibly others) expected.

It's just a demo lol

And what we're saying is that it's a bad demo. Demos are supposed to impress you enough to want to use the real thing. Your demo confused me and (apparently) a handful of other folks.

Instead of literally laughing off feedback and pretending there aren't any problems with your site, you may want to think a bit more critically about the presentation of your javascript plugin.

While it is just a demo, it's unusable unless you're on a mobile device.

If you're on a desktop, you're basically just sitting there watching it autoplay.

Then why does my mouse turn into a cursor when I hover over them?

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