Webcomics

[Ivar T]

I've read some storyline-based webcomics lately, and in most of them you click the displayed image to get to the next page in the comic - which is ofcourse quite easy - more so than if you have to move your mouse and click like in Grey Legacy, at least if you have as small a screen as I have.

 

In The Rainbow Orchid the display is small enough so that I wont have to both move and click with my mouse, even if I can't get forward by clicking the displayed strip. More intriguing though, is that you can see how a strip was first drawn by pencil by a click on a button to the bottom left of the strip. I guess some of those who make webcomics are interested in inspiring others, if maybe just for more popularity, and might be interested in similar features.

 

What additional features could the display of webcomics have?

 

Perhaps a better way of navigating. I see that 21th Century Fox, not as storyline-based though, has some kind of way available to navigate through a calender of strips made. I believe something more elegant could be used though, maybe taken from another medium on the internet.

 

Doesn't it require quite a bit bandwidth if readers are forced to load whole pages, with a lot of the same content, again and again as they go through a comic? Like in The Rainbow Orchid? As I'm new to web development I can't say that I'm much educated about JavaScript, although I have seen JavaScript load text from elsewhere on the web while not loading a whole new page. Is it possible to make JavaScript swap the displayed image in a webcomic with another one without it being necessary for readers to load a whole new page?

[Wizard]

See(in no particular order) xkcd, ctrl-alt-del, snafu comics, giants on the playground, megatokyo, looking for group, sinfest, cyanide and happiness, and girl genius online.

[Deospeon]

Ctrl+Alt+Del was always one of my favourites.