[gopher] Any webcomics fans out here?

[Mateusz Viste]

On 03/01/2014 06:00 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> Unfortunately, this approach is intractable for viewing HTML. The problem
> here is two-fold. First, it needs to be able to parse the HTML to find the
> images and then fire off threads to download and embed them, which is
> possible but obviously non-trivial. However, even if this were implemented,
> the web view has a hard limit on the amount of data you can embed in it which
> seems to be set in stone. In fact, the web view control became *less*
> flexible in later versions of Android, probably for security reasons.

Thanks for the explanation, it sounds tricky indeed!

In the meantime I modified my GophComix engine so it generates embedded 
images in the html code of my gopher comics agregator, and it now works 
perfectly on my Android phone with Overbite :)

cheers,
Mateusz