Previously, I wrote about the Calvin & Hobbes RSS feed I was scraping from UComics. Unfortunately, UComics replaced the image that was placed in the RSS feed with a Flash file. While I have updated the RSS feed, I am still a bit angry, since the Flash utilized on UComics is Flash 8. Since Flash 8 has not been released for Linux, the recent changes make the UComics website inaccessible for Linux users.
I would write more about this, but I plan on reading the Tain Bo Cuailinge instead.
It doesn't matter much, most online readers strip out embed tags - I can't read the feed anymore. Kinda cute too, the swf is in the "drm" folder. Most email programs also won't display embed/flash - I wonder what they did for the email version…
Thanks for the feed, I enjoyed it while it lasted.
Gregarius is one of those readers that strips out embed tags (although you can change this in the configuration pages), so none of the items in the feed display descriptions for me. I can still click on the link to get the Flash file, though.
Thanks for the link, I'll look into Gregarius more after work.
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ch/2007/ch070108.gif
You can simply change the date in the image name, and you have your daily comic. I'm sure you could create a feed using this, am I correct?
- Cee
This is because UComics switched back to using normal images sometime after this post was written. As the fact it took me a month to respond to your comment shows, I am busy doing other things than working on a service that UComics should provide itself.
Official feed: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/rss.pxml