[gopher] GophComix (was: Any webcomics fans out here?)

[Mateusz Viste]

Hi all,

For what it's worth, I released my GophComix application publicly right 
now (GPL).

GophComix is a CGI application that can present an online web comic (or 
in fact, any set of images) on gopher. It displays every image in a html 
file generated on the fly, and provides basic controls (next, previous, 
random..).

gopher://gopher.viste-family.net/1/projects/gophertools/phlogengine.cgi?dispgophcomix

cheers,
Mateusz



On 02/23/2014 07:20 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I like to read a few web comics from time to time. I prefer to read when
> I'm away from a computer, preferably on my smartphone. My problem is
> that checking for updates of my favorite webcomics is taking ages on a
> smallish screen with a sluggish android web browser.
>
> On the other hand, Overbite is working very nicely (fast!) on my
> Android, therefore I came up with the idea that I will read webcomics on
> my phone via gopher since now on.
>
> All this to say that I've set up a little gopher service that grabs
> automatically updates from latest webcomics I like, and allow to browse
> them via gopher. If there are some webcomics freaks like me out here,
> I'd love to hear what you think about this:
>
> gopher://gopher.viste-family.net/1/comics
>
> Not sure that sharing the code of this 'GophComix' engine would be of
> any interest to the community... But if so, I might package it to make
> it possible for others to reuse it for similar purposes.
>
> // complain mode on
> Too bad that the android version of overbite do not supports displaying
> images on html pages :/ Is it something that have any chance to get
> improved in some future, or should I consider Overbite on Android an
> 'end of life' software? :)
> // complain mode off
>
> cheers,
> Mateusz
>
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