Comic Fury Webcomic Hosting - updates 3

I'm doing some pretty major backend work at the moment, so if anything goes crazy please let me know. Everything should be fine though.

oh my~ ;D

more specifically I'm updating the template engine. CF wasn't up to the latest version, but I'd like it to be before I switch comics over to that one as well.

first tests of the dragonslayer-based cf comics have proven successful

still a lot of work to do, but the groundwork is done

I am a robot who eats legacy code

I've got the new comic system mostly figured out now, it's just some menial work that's left. Once that's done I'll just have to see to it that the template engine update doesn't break all old layout backups. Not a monstrosity of a hurdle, just something that is to be considered. Then I'll have to figure out how to best transition the site.

Initially my plan was to let users "live" with the old system for a while but that's turning out to complicate things more than I thought it would. As such, I'll just switch over everyone at once and translate all templates automatically. This doesn't really mean much for pretty much everyone of you, but if you were just getting into CF HTML-based layouts, don't get too attached to the old syntax. There is an explanation of the new sytax here. Nothing too complicated or hard to get used to.

I should probably also make a proper guide before the switchover since besides being much less typework, it's also slightly less intuitive.

fixing things here and there. I hope to do some sort of preview before actually taking the system live, so people can make sure their layouts work fine and stuff

now that i finally have access to a real pc again instead of a macbook air, I can continue coding this thing.

Here are some variables that will change, mostly to make them more consistent accross different pages:



some of these are really old legacy variables from the very first template system in 2008, that didn't have negators (now "n:" soon "!"), that basically no layouts whatsoever use. All variables will be automatically converted to their new equivalent, so this is really mostly not interesting for you.

anyway, yeah. I'm making progress.