Philipp Wojke

Version 1.12 (2011-08-20)
Updated jQuery and jQuery UI.
Fixed showing scrollbars when not needed.

I just uploaded version 1.9 (2010-08-12) of the Comic Viewer widget. It should be public available after a day or so when the review by Opera is finished.

The widget now can find the last viewed page for all comics, even if new pages were added. This is done through identifying a page by navigation/image links and searching back through the pages from the stored page URL. To conserve resources only up to 100 pages are searched.

When adding/updating comic settings now only the selectors of existing comics will be updated. The other settings will not be touched, so you no longer lose the title, current page URL or layout/zoom settings of updated comics.

Page navigation has been changed to only jump to a new page if at least the HTML part of the page could load. This will prevent the widget from getting stuck on a non existing/loading page with disabled page navigation controls. The loading error output was changed to, you will now get a better description what caused a loading problem.

I also fixed some bugs with image scaling, thumbnail loading and the loading counter.

Don't forget to backup/export your settings before upgrading. Settings should not be lost during upgrading, but better sure than sorry.

There are now over 10 thousand downloads of the Comic Viewer widget, but feedback is still lacking. Up to now I developed the widget mostly to my likings. Either that's fine for most users or nobody cares to ask for improvements. Because I can't really belief that I would like to known your opinion and ideas about what upcoming versions should include.

Are you missing any features?

Can't figure out the correct selectors for a comic and need help?

Do you have comics you would like to share with other users? Just post the URL and I make the settings. If you already have settings for them, even better.

Maybe you even made your own style or other change to the widget and want to have that included in the official version?

Feel free to post your thoughts as comments or send me a message. If your contributions are accepted you will even be recognized in the about tab of the widget.

Opera 10.60 is out. Its nice and fast, but some JavaScript / security changes may clash with the Comic Viewer widget. If you get a "Security Violation" error for every comic after launch, just hit the F5 key. This reloads the widget and seems to help. I'm investigating the problem at the moment but have no real solution yet.

And again one of my favorites: The award winning Schlock Mercenary by Howard Tayler. A daily Webcomic running since June 12, 2000 without ever even missing one day. Like Jeph Jacques with Questionable Content, Howard lives now entirely from the earnings of this comic.

The comic is satiric space opera about a 31st-century mercenary company run by Kaff Tagon. Title giver Schlock is a carbosilicate amorph, who enlists with the mercenaries. The story follows Schlock and the mercenaries through various ups and downs, literally creating a whole universe with various fractions, characters and technical gadgets. The strips are often good for a laugh but the long story arcs also have tragic moments. Howard has masterly managed to create a fascinating comic. As always, go read more at Wikipeda and don't forget to read the comic.

Howards drawings way back from 2000 are not the prettiest, but he improved his skill considerably over the years. Now his comic are perspectively correct, with nice background, anatomically correct characters and shaded coloring.

Don't miss this masterpiece of web comic storytelling.

Comic Viewer Configuration

{
  "comics":[
    {
      "uuid":"2AF5C2D3-0D82-437F-BE0F-076A6CD3E61A",
      "name":"Schlock Mercenary",
      "urlPage":"http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20000612.html",
      "selectorImage":".Comic",
      "selectorFirst":"*[src*=comicnav-firstday.]",
      "selectorPrevious":"*[src*=comicnav-previous]",
      "selectorNext":"*[src*=comicnav-next.]",
      "selectorLast":"*[src*=comicnav-lastday.]",
      "selectorExtra":".Comic:not(img)",
      "imageLayout":0,
      "imageScale":1
    }
  ]
}