Truck Bearing Kibble - Latest Comments in Looking for Ideas

Re: Looking for Ideas

kasdklha — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:27:55 -0000

This was very good to know... Thanks for all the information:)

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size 14 shoes — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 17:12:18 -0000

That's definitely an option, and likely the easiest way to go, but I'm interested in more dynamic solutions if they're out there.

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sajhdkal — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:11:33 -0000

Issues with this design are, of course, panel-less comics (your 3 panel style is great though, especially when you do subtle breakouts, like Not So Easy Rider's pogostick), and the possibility of losing the "overall" detail.

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2oymm4 — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:27:20 -0000

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jfalco — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:31:16 -0000

Disagree. I can only get up to 1024x768, the same as many people who browse sites like this from work.

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tbkjames — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:24:06 -0000

I'd suggest making the images clickable links but only for subscribers. I'm not sure if you want to do paid subscriptions or stick an ad in there but it would help pay for the bandwidth.

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Garrett — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:02:05 -0000

I vote for same width, but putting one panel per row. Of course, then you're not taking advantage of larger screen sizes.

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Khao — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:15:29 -0000

Yes, pretty much like everything in Facebook if you're familiar with it, all the pop-ups are with AJAX (which is pretty much just fancy javascript).

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CaseyTech — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:12:21 -0000

I think that the easiest thing to do would be to but a link under each comic saying to click the here for a higher resolution version of the image, then have the high res version of the picture on Flickr. This will save you bandwidth and be very easy to implement. I do the same thing on my blog, http://caseytech.blogspot.com . When you click on an image in a post, you will be sent to the full sized one on Flickr. but, of course, you may not want to have your images as low quality as mine.

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Jeff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:46 -0000

I should read before writing... doh.

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Jeff — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:34:08 -0000

You could get super crazy and do this. Create the page so that it stretches nice and wide. Then, when the page loads you can measure the width of the screen, round it down a bit*, and then send the width off to a backend script. That script would then take a super high res version of the image, scale it down (nicely with GD or image magic) save it out and server it to the viewer. You could even refresh it if the browser resizes. Add a little caching and you're off. You could even preprocess the images to be of 10 different sizes and get a "best fit".

* Rounding here so you don't end up with 1000 variant sizes of an image that's 1000 pixels wide.

Someone will come along to this and say "Just add an image tag and set it's css to "max-width: 100%" and be done. True, except for the browsers that don't support that and also for the fact that GD/ImageMagic will do a much better job scaling the image than the browser will.

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Off — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:58:59 -0000

Very interesting stuff there. I'm worried that getting this site to auto scale would strain my rather limited understanding of CSS, but I may start playing around...

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Off — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:55:48 -0000

That's kind of nice...

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--- — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:47:00 -0000

The best idea would be to auto-detect resolution. If that can't be done, I'd say go with allowing users to set cookies with their preferences. While links are a good start, for people like me who just recently discovered the comic and are reading through the archives, it would be nice to have the page always in the size we want.

For the images themselves, you can just keep a few different resolutions available (and choose which to load based on the above suggestion), or default to the largest and just scale them with html (albeit that wastes a fair deal of bandwidth).

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Superdotman — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:43 -0000

I meet your Lightbox and raise it one FancyZoom.
http://www.cabel.name/2008/02/fancyzoom-10.html

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Superdotman — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:50:30 -0000

http://nickcowie.com/2006/css-reboot-havok/
tl;dr:
Resize the browser window and watch the header.

The math in in here:
http://nickcowie.com/2006/the-fluid-elastic-reb...
And a bunch more information is available under the right tag:
http://nickcowie.com/category/elastic-design/

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Mini0n — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:13:00 -0000

Lightbox2

Here: http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

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Off — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:42:21 -0000

The slideshow idea is interesting but it doesn't seem right for TBK. Perhaps for another project... hmmm.

Also, thanks for the Scott McCloud link. Interesting stuff.

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Off — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:38:04 -0000

This would create one of those "fake" popup windows I take it? I'm not familiar with AJAX.

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Off — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:50:29 -0000

I just looked into that a little. I kind of like the concept, but I don't want to force people to have to install Silverlight to use this site.