Friday, October 30, 2009

BeaucoupKevin's Halloween Comic

Dear Kevin:

Yes, this interface. This is what I've been waiting for, since I saw Yves Baclan do it. Although I think he uses the concept a bit more artfully -- creating movement or adding information by playing with the layers on the original frame -- I think your execution is the dead-simple version that can be most easily utilized by the majority of web comic creators. Expect a phone call this weekend.

This links to the thing I mentioned on Twitter about e-print formats. But basically -- look, Flash. It works everywhere. It's already here. Stop trying to re-invent the wheel, Longbox.

53 comments:

  1. Thanks, Rogers! There's no real magic involved here: I looked at a few photo gallery packages but was really disappointed until I found one that offered the minimal look I wanted for this without much work. (I am lazy.)

    "Copy Protection" was done using the free Jalbum software for the Mac and its Galleria skin. It basically took a folder of images and with just a few minor tweaks, I had a comic on the web in about 5 minutes.

    Interestingly enough, it doesn't use Flash at all, despite the nifty effects. That's all Javascript and CSS. It doesn't look right on my G1, but I've been told it's fine on an iPhone, which is a nice bonus audience to get without trying.

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  2. ... Wow. Took me a bit to figure out what was going on, but that's darned creepy.

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  3. Interface = amazing. Comic = ...fucking creepy. *shudder*Dr

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  4. And Kevin brought up the #1 reason that you don't want it in Flash. iPhones and iPod touches. Sure, they're not as large a population as Blackberries and PCs that can run Flash, but they also illicit a retention rate that makes it so Flash will soon give way to CSS, HTML5, and other standards.

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  5. Thanks for pointing that out Rogers. T'was perfect for handing out candy to the kids.

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  6. >>>Interestingly enough, it doesn't use Flash at all, despite the nifty effects. That's all Javascript and CSS.

    Whoa! That's impressive!

    Have a look at the Vook web interface. It's very, very nice. All Flash, tho, so iPhones are out (but there's digital book versions for iPhone!).

    Vook Debuts Digital Books

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  7. I think the neatest thing about that is that the format sort of prevented subconsciously reading ahead, but was oh so smooth. The inability to read ahead really helped the mood, I thought.

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  8. I really liked the frames I could see, but 1 in 10 just came up as black, and if I tried to reload the whole thing started over (and the black frames were still black).

    Eventually gave up, which was frustrating 'cuz I was into the story...

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  9. John: Flash does NOT work everywhere. Honest 4 rilz. That's why we built the ComicMix reader in Ajax.

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  10. I really liked the frames I could see, but 1 in 10 just came up as black, and if I tried to reload the whole thing started over (and the black frames were still black).

    There are two intentionally black frames in the story - you just need to click on them to move on - but if you had problems elsewhere, please let me know where so I can take a look at things.

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  11. Ah. Thanks, Kevin. Those were the only two. I may have been a tad hyperbolic with the "one in ten" but there were only 30 or so frames, right? :o)

    Did run into a weird issue where, after a while, the scrolling thing at the top of the screen stopped scrolling, holding on a particular frame while the big picture kept advancing.

    In any event, once I knew about the intentionally left blank pages, I went back to it and finished it. nice work! thanks for sharing!

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  12. This cannot have effect in actual fact, that's what I think.

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