Carl Foxmarten (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
carlfoxmarten) wrote2010-10-17 01:59 am
carlfoxmarten) wrote2010-10-17 01:59 am
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Such power!
I've often found it annoying when I'm reading a webcomic strip's archives and trying to keep my place.
Most of the time, I keep a bookmark updated with my current place, but that has the problem of being tied to that particular computer.
(yes, I know there are ways to synchronize bookmarks between browsers and computers, but I'm a geek, I like doing things myself)
So what I've done is added the capacity to save temporary links to given sites based on pattern-matching the URLs in my new link-tagging system.
"All" I have to do is go into each entry that points to a webcomic and tell it what pattern the archive links are in, then I use a very simple bookmarklet that sends the current URL to my page and it'll figure out which it's for and update the relevant link!
Once it's set up, it's very easy to save quick links from webcomics archives.
Plus, it was a fairly easy feature to add, and it'll be so useful for me.
(it took me about an hour, as I'm a little rusty on my PHP and Sqlite coding)
If anybody's interested in seeing how the link-tagging system works, ask and you might get a link to it.
(read-only, of course)
Now all I need to do is add entries for all the webcomics I read and I'll be all set!
Which is, unfortunately, the only really tedious part...
Most of the time, I keep a bookmark updated with my current place, but that has the problem of being tied to that particular computer.
(yes, I know there are ways to synchronize bookmarks between browsers and computers, but I'm a geek, I like doing things myself)
So what I've done is added the capacity to save temporary links to given sites based on pattern-matching the URLs in my new link-tagging system.
"All" I have to do is go into each entry that points to a webcomic and tell it what pattern the archive links are in, then I use a very simple bookmarklet that sends the current URL to my page and it'll figure out which it's for and update the relevant link!
Once it's set up, it's very easy to save quick links from webcomics archives.
Plus, it was a fairly easy feature to add, and it'll be so useful for me.
(it took me about an hour, as I'm a little rusty on my PHP and Sqlite coding)
If anybody's interested in seeing how the link-tagging system works, ask and you might get a link to it.
(read-only, of course)
Now all I need to do is add entries for all the webcomics I read and I'll be all set!
Which is, unfortunately, the only really tedious part...