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Date: 30 Oct 2005 21:58 (UTC)Now if it was distributed by email or on newsgroups then yes, it would be part of the Internet but not the Web, hence not a webcomic. But on websites? Sure it's a webcomic - however many hoops you have to jump through in order to access it.
(rest is a response to general comments)
Leaving aside the issue of silly restrictions, I don't think LJ is the best interface in the world for webcomics, but it's not too bad. It has a forward and back button, what more do you need? And I guess for those who do have LJ accounts it's convenient to read since you can friend it (although personally, I do read a comic based on lj - the excellent
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Date: 30 Oct 2005 23:17 (UTC)I accept that it uses an interface which is based on HTML, but then I have helped to write Intranets and front end applications which use the same conventions. They certainly aren't available in th Internet.
> There's nothing that says Web sites have to be open to the public - very
> many sites have protected areas. That doesn't mean they aren't Web sites.
Protected areas, yes, but LJ is a whole site with (some measure of) isolation from the web.
> Anything served via http or https, using HTML or XHTML or similar, is a
> Web site by definition.
> Now if it was distributed by email or on newsgroups then yes, it would be
> part of the Internet but not the Web, hence not a webcomic. But on
> websites? Sure it's a webcomic - however many hoops you have to jump
> through in order to access it.
I think we will have to agree to disagree on this. But that's fine, I disagree with a lot of my friends.