{"id":254,"date":"2005-07-16T13:44:50","date_gmt":"2005-07-16T13:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2005-07-16T13:44:50","modified_gmt":"2005-07-16T13:44:50","slug":"infinite_canvas_comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/16\/infinite_canvas_comics\/","title":{"rendered":"infinite canvas comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/the_page_as_a_s_1.html\">A while back<\/a>, I posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/rchi.raskincenter.org\/aboutarchy\/img\/zoomdemo.swf\">this demo<\/a> (Flash, 8.4Mb) of <a href=\"http:\/\/jef.raskincenter.org\/home\/index.html\">Jef Raskin<\/a>&#8216;s proposed zooming interface for his <a href=\"http:\/\/rchi.raskincenter.org\/aboutrchi\/index.php\">Archy<\/a> system. There&#8217;s more than an echo of that work in these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcomicsnation.com\/tarquin\/listings\/series.php?view=archive&#038;chapter=208&#038;name=listings&#038;line=229\">infinite canvas comics<\/a> made using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcomicsnation.com\/tarquin\/subscribe\/moreinfo.php\">Tarquin Engine<\/a>, a template for Macromedia Flash that lets authors easily create scrolling, zoomable comics. While I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m enthralled by the content of any of the comics on display, there&#8217;s something exciting about the possibilities of the form. I do wish the format was free &#038; open, enabling more dabbling by amateurs: there are clearly any number of directions that this could take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I posted on this demo (Flash, 8.4Mb) of Jef Raskin&#8216;s proposed zooming interface for his Archy system. There&#8217;s more than an echo of that work in these infinite canvas comics made using the Tarquin Engine, a template for Macromedia Flash that lets authors easily create scrolling, zoomable comics. While I can&#8217;t say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1857],"tags":[2263],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_form_of_the_book","tag-comics-infinite-canvas-raskin-zooming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}