John Allison added a script by Ash Young to Scary Go Round that lets you mark your place. If you miss a week or two, you can click to get back to the last page you read. The arrow of time preserved!
If I don’t follow a web comic regularly, I lose my place and find myself paging backwards to where I left off. This plays havoc with narrative, unless the artist’s doing a pastiche of Memento.
Some suggestions:
- The interface asks if you want to ‘tag’ the comic. When I first tried it, I thought I was going to get a Flickr-like interface to add my own descriptive tags. It should ask if you want to ‘mark your place’ in the stream.
- The script requires you to click a link to mark your place. The link sets a cookie through JavaScript. I’d like the page to set the marker as part of the pageload event.
- If you have a bookmark cookie, and you have missed intervening comics, then the page should display a message, above the current comic, telling you that you’ve missed them, and offer a link to jump to the last one you’ve read.
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