Comic made from randomly generated image feed

[tinyghosts]

I have a new comic that debuted in April. It's pretentiously titled, "Even in the deepest heart of chaos, a glimmer of order can be found"

It's a 'constrained comic'. The concept is pretty simply. I use a random image generator to pull six random photos off the internet. I don't control the photos or their order. My job as a creator is to add word balloons to these six seemingly random photos to create a consistent story with a narrative theme. If I do my job correctly, you would swear that I specifically chose the photos and/or their order, but I didn't, they are random. Get it? Read a few and it'll become clear, I hope.

It updates M-F Here's the URL:
http://www.foundcomics.net/

Take a look. If you like it, tell your friends. If you don't like it, tell your enemies...

[Tim Tylor]

I like it.

Couple of tech things: Today's page isn't working in Firefox for some reason, just showing the text of the page code. It's odd, as it's reading okay in Internet Explorer, and all the archived pages are fine. Also, the Next link on the "Loser" strip's just reloading that strip.

[tinyghosts]

Thanks for the tips.

I have no idea why Firefox has problems with some of the pages. I am almost completley html illiterate, so I'm not using php script or anything complicated like that. Every comic is a seperate web page that's hand made using a text editor. I don't see how I could be doing something that Firefox doesn't like. Of course, I use a mac, and macs always work, so I'd suggest everyone out there who can't read my comic should just get a mac.

[Rip Tanion]

I'm not an HTML expert, but I'm pretty familiar with it. I viewed the source code of the page, and here are my suggestions.

Place your TITLE, META, and SCRIPT tags within a HEAD tag. Also, your BODY tag doesn't appear to be closed. More importantly, I think, is that it appears whatever program you are using to code your pages, is padding every character with spaces, and that's no good.

For example:

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< t i t l e >   E v e n   i n   t h e   d e e p e s t   h e a r t   o f   c h a o s ,   a   g l i m m e r   o f   o r d e r   c a n   b e   f o u n d ,   0 31   < / t i t l e >

should read

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<title>Even in the deepest heart of chaos,a glimmer of order can be found, 031</title>

I think the reason for the problem diplaying the page in Firefox (and I assume all other Mozilla browsers), and not IE, is because of the difference in which the two different browsers parse code. IE seems to ignore these coding errors, and is able to render the page, while the Mozilla engine does not.

Bottom line is that your HTML code needs to be fixed. Get rid of all those spaces, and there should be no problem dispaying these pages in all browsers on all platforms.

Telling people to just get a Mac is not very good way at getting, and more importantly, keeping traffic to your site.

Good luck with your repairs.