Larger comic images: Yes or no? (Done. Polls say: Yes!)
As I mentioned, I’m experimenting with responsive design for the HD and/or mobile version of Cat Nine. After playing around with it for a while, I kinda want to apply it to the main site, if it’s ok with you guys. So far, I’ve only tested it with page 85. For now, the comic image is the only thing that adjusts since redesigning the whole layout is too much work. What do you guys think? Poll below! Pros:
- Comic image size automatically adjusts up to 1920 pixels wide.
- If 980 pixels wide and below, nothing happens.
Cons:
- It may be too big to some people, at least, it is for me.
- Higher file size. For page 85, it went up from 53KB to 129KB.
- Haven’t tested it on my phone yet (ugh, stupid Wi-Fi).
- Some pages might look weird, maybe. If there’s anything, please tell me.
EDIT: Okay, instead of it taking the whole width of the screen, I’ve made the larger comic image take up only 95% of the screen.
Lazylonewolf Partial zoom factors often makes text.unreadable.
Nyerguds Heh, well, that’s the problem with the comic’s “horizontal” format, although I wasn’t expecting anyone to zoom in that close, except for people using mobile devices.
Lazylonewolf Well, I read through the comic zoomed to 200%, and since that actually made a horizontal scroll bar appear, it made the arrow keys navigation thing kinda annoying, since wanted to use those to scroll the page, heh. Though that obviously won’t be a problem anymore if the comics get larger 😉
Nyerguds I’m actually applying the larger images now. Hmm, that’s an idea, I could make another poll about that. “Clicking on the comic: Next page or larger image?”
But, I’ll probably leave it “next page” though, since it’s a lot easier for mobile devices, and they can’t take advantage of those larger images anyway.
Seeing as I end up zooming the comic when reading, that seems like a good idea, yea.
Would be nice to have some kind of ‘open full res comic’ function then, though, since the site still downsizes it at this moment.
Lazylonewolf Junrei Yeah, kinda. Just giving my input on what I do.
Junrei Lazylonewolf I’ll take that as a maybe/neutral/whatever then.
Lazylonewolf Junrei It’s up to you. It’s not a problem for me if I zoom in using Chrome so… it doesn’t really matter to me.
Junrei That lowers the quality a bit, though I guess it’s alright if you’re fine with it.
Well, technically I just zoom in by 125% so I’m good. A little bigger is nice though.
@ColdFusion Yeah, I was thinking the same thing for the past few days now. Also, I plan to make more larger comics like page 71, so they definitely might be too big, even for larger screens.
Bigger’s definitely better!
Based on my experiences with page 85, I think maybe it doesn’t need to be THAT much bigger. Just bigger than it is now. Horizontal is always kind of a tough thing to do with comics, since people want to scroll vertically.
sqp I do, yes.
Do you run the comic PNGs through an optimizer before posting?
NetHamster Use the poll above, please!
Here’s a vote for yes. (Please! :3)