Comments on: Innovation? http://www.fleen.com/archives/2006/11/10/innovation/ the webcomics blog about webcomics Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:24:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: actualperson http://www.fleen.com/archives/2006/11/10/innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-11780 actualperson Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:49:14 +0000 http://www.fleen.com/archives/2006/11/10/innovation/#comment-11780 You can click the view flat option if you don't like the interactive way of doing things. You can click the view flat option if you don’t like the interactive way of doing things.

]]> By: Howard Tayler http://www.fleen.com/archives/2006/11/10/innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-11747 Howard Tayler Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:38:50 +0000 http://www.fleen.com/archives/2006/11/10/innovation/#comment-11747 The Crossgen site (its loss is sorely lamented by fans locally) had a VERY cool system where you could tab from panel to panel, dialog to dialog, and the dialogs would zoom larger as you selected them. No mouse needed, and when you got to the last dialog on the page, the tab key took you to the next page. It was dayumn slick. Dave Lamphear (a former Crossgen letterer and local pro here in Utah) related once that it seemed Crossgen's problems stemmed from focusing on becoming a technology company, when some bright-boy told them that their comics-on-the-web system had patentable bits. The Crossgen site (its loss is sorely lamented by fans locally) had a VERY cool system where you could tab from panel to panel, dialog to dialog, and the dialogs would zoom larger as you selected them.

No mouse needed, and when you got to the last dialog on the page, the tab key took you to the next page. It was dayumn slick.

Dave Lamphear (a former Crossgen letterer and local pro here in Utah) related once that it seemed Crossgen’s problems stemmed from focusing on becoming a technology company, when some bright-boy told them that their comics-on-the-web system had patentable bits.

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