Hey Malach, read your 3rd article on re-inventing the webcomic. Again, good stuff. I thought that as I've felt the need to respond to your last articles, I'd just start a thread where I (and others) could just toss shit out there for you to mull over.
I must admit, your idea of relying more on an infinate canvas intrigues me. if you have infinate space, why confine yourself to 8.5x11? its an unnecesary constraint. i was looking at your last installment of jesusman! where you implemented this idea, and something surprised me;
the comic is a single image. At a glance it looks like a collection of images, but its not.
for somebody on dial up to view an image that size could be a problem. i know dial up is going the way of the dinosaurs and disco music, but its something to think about.
i know web programming is not your main field of interest, but i also see you pick up on it very fast. what if you used <table> tags to create rows and columns of cells (you can combine cells to make them larger if need be) and place smaller images and text within the cells? you'd have to hard code your dimensions, but i can see afew advantages;
1. page loads quicker
2. you can use <html> tags within your webcomic. a <marquee> tag could be used to make a panel scroll across the screen, for example. 9/10 times this would be lame, but properly used it could be cool.
3. you had stated you didn't wantt o do flash animations. in a table, you could probably write some simple javascript that would let you create a 'slide show' in a panel. this could be really cool for combat sequences.
but i'm rambling. basically, i'm just curious if there was a reason you made the comic a single image or if that's just how you chose to do it.
