01-25-2004, 04:16 PM -
Hi.
I got a brilliant idea for a new plugin. This new plugin will be a web comic strip reader. It will fetch images through http and display the image as the button itself (so you can just put it in a menu).
The idea is that the plugin will read INI files that contain definitions for every comic you want. The syntax will be simple. It will only require a label/title for the comic and a string for the path to the image. The string can include tags like <yy>, <yyyy>, <dd>, and the likes to be replaced with by the relevant data according to time/date formatting.
Also, due to the irregularity of some online comic strips' image naming, another way to define the path would be to supply a web page address, one bounding string, a secoond, and a path. The html of the web address will be retrieved by the plugin and in the code the plugin will find the string that is between the two bounding strings. Within the supplied path it will replace some preset tag with the string to form the path to the image.
Allowing these two ways to define a comic one can define most if not all web comics.
What do you say?
I got a brilliant idea for a new plugin. This new plugin will be a web comic strip reader. It will fetch images through http and display the image as the button itself (so you can just put it in a menu).
The idea is that the plugin will read INI files that contain definitions for every comic you want. The syntax will be simple. It will only require a label/title for the comic and a string for the path to the image. The string can include tags like <yy>, <yyyy>, <dd>, and the likes to be replaced with by the relevant data according to time/date formatting.
Also, due to the irregularity of some online comic strips' image naming, another way to define the path would be to supply a web page address, one bounding string, a secoond, and a path. The html of the web address will be retrieved by the plugin and in the code the plugin will find the string that is between the two bounding strings. Within the supplied path it will replace some preset tag with the string to form the path to the image.
Allowing these two ways to define a comic one can define most if not all web comics.
What do you say?