In order to zoom in on the vertical Sunday Peanuts strips and actually see them enlarged, try using Opera as your web browser for GoComics. This will also allow you to enlarge the other GoComics Sunday strips that are in vertical format – For Better or For Worse, Doonesbury, etc.
Download Opera for free here: http://www.opera.com
After downloading, open Opera and then type in gocomics.com
Maximize your window, click on a strip to enlarge it, scroll down to read the entire strip, and use the back arrow to return.
Additional details for those who are interested:
The zooming problem is browser-related. Windows Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are trying to display the entire zoomed strip within the open window, and that’s why Sunday’s vertical Peanuts comic was appearing smaller, rather than larger, when clicking on the small version to try to zoom it. The shorter your window is, the smaller the zoomed version will appear. This will also happen with the daily comics – they will be shrunk if your window isn’t wide enough when you click to zoom.
However, Opera displays the zoomed version full size, regardless of the size of your window. Since the Sunday comic is in vertical format, you maximize your window to make sure you have enough width for the zoomed version, and then you scroll down to see the full strip.
(Tip: In order to make sure that Opera’s back arrow always returns you to the correct location after zooming, open all of the comments before zooming – not just the most recent comment.)
Unfortunately, the zoomed version of Peanuts on GoComics looks fuzzier and more pixilated than the zoomed version did on ComicsDotCom. Also, the zoomed daily strips on GoComics look worse than the zoomed Sunday strips on GoComics.
If your monitor is set to low or medium resolution (maybe 1024 pixels or less), the zoomed strips will look large, fuzzy, and pixilated (especially the daily strips). If your monitor is set to very high resolution (maybe 1280 pixels or more), the zoomed strips will look sharper but won’t look as large.
How sharp the zoomed strips appear also depends on your screen size and how close you sit to the screen. If your screen size is really big, the zoomed strips will look bigger and fuzzier. If you sit really close to your screen, the zoomed strips will also look bigger and fuzzier.
Golly Hobbs, I had no idea you knew so much about computers! Thank you so much for your information, the opera site and the explanation. I am so totally impressed!
Do you work with computers, that is program them or something? You are so far ahead of me that I am choking on the dust you leave behind as you gallop off and pass me by.
I wish I had a tiny bit of your knowledge and ability.
–To optimize the viewing experience we should switch to a browser used by less than 2% of the population.
–Even when we do switch, the zoomed version will not look as good as before.
–Viewers who use the same monitor resolution as before will find the strips are now smaller and clicking on them makes them more pixellated.
–The original publication date is no longer included.
–Someone is still colorizing every day’s strip, largely ruining them for many readers (coming soon: vividly-colored renditions of Ansel Adams’ most famous black-and-white photos!)
Teething problems are inevitable, so I’ll give this about another week. I want it to succeed, but if things don’t improve, it’s back to the printed versions for me.
–To optimize the viewing experience we should switch to a browser used by less than 2% of the population.
–Even when we do switch, the zoomed version will not look as good as before.
–Viewers who use the same monitor resolution as before will find the strips are now smaller and clicking on them makes them more pixellated.
–The original publication date is no longer included.
–Someone is still colorizing every day’s strip, largely ruining them for many readers (coming soon: vividly-colored renditions of Ansel Adams’ most famous black-and-white photos!)
Teething problems are inevitable, so I’ll give this about another week. I want it to succeed, but if things don’t improve, it’s back to the printed versions for me.
To optimize the viewing experience we should switch to a browser used by less than 2% of the population.
Even when we do switch, the zoomed version will not look as good as before.
Viewers who use the same monitor resolution as before will find the strips are now smaller and clicking on them makes them more pixellated.
The original publication date is no longer included.
Someone is still colorizing every day’s strip, largely ruining them for many readers (coming soon: vividly-colored renditions of Ansel Adams’ most famous black-and-white photos!)
Teething problems are inevitable, so I’ll give this about another week. I want it to succeed, but if things don’t improve, it’s back to the printed versions for me.
No, I’m not a computer expert, but I try to learn what I can in the area of a computer’s most important function, which is to display comic strips. As a result, I may sound like a computer expert to comic strip readers, but to a true computer expert I sound more like a comic strip reader. What I wrote here was a combination of some of my previous knowledge and some things I figured out by experimenting with using different web browsers to view Peanuts in GoComics.
In my spare time, I do volunteer Java programming for NASA. (Just kidding.)
Hobbes, the information you provided is greatly appreciated, but I would still prefer that GoComics take the imitative to resolve the enlargement problem as opposed to millions of readers needing to switch browsers. The ‘other’ comic site handled Peanuts beautifully - even allowing me to read the tiny copyright print between the panels - so I know it can be done without ME having to jump through hoops.
Again, your efforts are admirable, but I would rather see an organized effort made by us - the loyal reader fanbase - to encourage GoComics to upgrade or update or upsomething to fix the problem.
In fact, I’m lookin’ at the “Contact Us” button right now …!
GoComics has so many excellent comics, including now Peanuts, I really hope they decide it’s in the best interests of the readers and the creators to display them properly. It’s disrespectful to the creators, especially one as esteemed as Charles M. Schulz.
The ironic thing is, he made the strip super-simple because of the shrinking comic strips at the time (around 1950), but now even small it just doesn’t look good online. It’s not right.
Yes, all of the comics on GoComics have poorer resolution than ComicsDotCom, so they need to change their entire system. It’s just more obvious with the Peanuts dailies, because the shape makes them so small. Calvin and Hobbes dailies are no wider than Peanuts, but they are about twice as tall, so the characters are bigger to begin with and it’s not as irritating.
GoComics seems to be working with an original that is 600 pixels wide and then just enlarging it using poor enlarging software. ComicsDotCom seemed to have separate originals that were large to begin with.
My Sunday Peanuts looked wonderful on Windows XP… very clear. This strip seems smaller and it does seem a bit pixilated when double-clicked. It is not as good as on Comics.com
Hobbes et al., all you have to do in Internet Exploiter (wink) is go to the right hand corner of the window and click on the enlarge tab. You can enlarge the whole page, including the comic strip, up to 400% if you like, without changing the size of the window itself. A tad clunky compared to some other browsers’ approaches perhaps, but it more than gets the job done.
Hobbes Premium Member about 13 years ago
Enlarging Sunday Peanuts Strips:
In order to zoom in on the vertical Sunday Peanuts strips and actually see them enlarged, try using Opera as your web browser for GoComics. This will also allow you to enlarge the other GoComics Sunday strips that are in vertical format – For Better or For Worse, Doonesbury, etc.
Download Opera for free here: http://www.opera.com
After downloading, open Opera and then type in gocomics.com
Maximize your window, click on a strip to enlarge it, scroll down to read the entire strip, and use the back arrow to return.
Additional details for those who are interested:
The zooming problem is browser-related. Windows Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox are trying to display the entire zoomed strip within the open window, and that’s why Sunday’s vertical Peanuts comic was appearing smaller, rather than larger, when clicking on the small version to try to zoom it. The shorter your window is, the smaller the zoomed version will appear. This will also happen with the daily comics – they will be shrunk if your window isn’t wide enough when you click to zoom.
However, Opera displays the zoomed version full size, regardless of the size of your window. Since the Sunday comic is in vertical format, you maximize your window to make sure you have enough width for the zoomed version, and then you scroll down to see the full strip.
(Tip: In order to make sure that Opera’s back arrow always returns you to the correct location after zooming, open all of the comments before zooming – not just the most recent comment.)
Unfortunately, the zoomed version of Peanuts on GoComics looks fuzzier and more pixilated than the zoomed version did on ComicsDotCom. Also, the zoomed daily strips on GoComics look worse than the zoomed Sunday strips on GoComics.
If your monitor is set to low or medium resolution (maybe 1024 pixels or less), the zoomed strips will look large, fuzzy, and pixilated (especially the daily strips). If your monitor is set to very high resolution (maybe 1280 pixels or more), the zoomed strips will look sharper but won’t look as large.
How sharp the zoomed strips appear also depends on your screen size and how close you sit to the screen. If your screen size is really big, the zoomed strips will look bigger and fuzzier. If you sit really close to your screen, the zoomed strips will also look bigger and fuzzier.
LittleSister18 about 13 years ago
Charlie brown needs a relief pitcher.
pouncingtiger about 13 years ago
“have your arm drop off”! That practically happened to Dravecky of the SF Giants.
GROG Premium Member about 13 years ago
No athlete really wants to leave a game early - unless they are really getting their butts kicked.
Francine Long about 13 years ago
Golly Hobbs, I had no idea you knew so much about computers! Thank you so much for your information, the opera site and the explanation. I am so totally impressed!
Do you work with computers, that is program them or something? You are so far ahead of me that I am choking on the dust you leave behind as you gallop off and pass me by.
I wish I had a tiny bit of your knowledge and ability.
YesDear about 13 years ago
So here are the known knowns:
–To optimize the viewing experience we should switch to a browser used by less than 2% of the population.
–Even when we do switch, the zoomed version will not look as good as before.
–Viewers who use the same monitor resolution as before will find the strips are now smaller and clicking on them makes them more pixellated.
–The original publication date is no longer included.
–Someone is still colorizing every day’s strip, largely ruining them for many readers (coming soon: vividly-colored renditions of Ansel Adams’ most famous black-and-white photos!)
Teething problems are inevitable, so I’ll give this about another week. I want it to succeed, but if things don’t improve, it’s back to the printed versions for me.
YesDear about 13 years ago
So here are the known knowns:
–To optimize the viewing experience we should switch to a browser used by less than 2% of the population.
–Even when we do switch, the zoomed version will not look as good as before.
–Viewers who use the same monitor resolution as before will find the strips are now smaller and clicking on them makes them more pixellated.
–The original publication date is no longer included.
–Someone is still colorizing every day’s strip, largely ruining them for many readers (coming soon: vividly-colored renditions of Ansel Adams’ most famous black-and-white photos!)
Teething problems are inevitable, so I’ll give this about another week. I want it to succeed, but if things don’t improve, it’s back to the printed versions for me.
YesDear about 13 years ago
So here are the known knowns:
To optimize the viewing experience we should switch to a browser used by less than 2% of the population.
Even when we do switch, the zoomed version will not look as good as before.
Viewers who use the same monitor resolution as before will find the strips are now smaller and clicking on them makes them more pixellated.
The original publication date is no longer included.
Someone is still colorizing every day’s strip, largely ruining them for many readers (coming soon: vividly-colored renditions of Ansel Adams’ most famous black-and-white photos!)
Teething problems are inevitable, so I’ll give this about another week. I want it to succeed, but if things don’t improve, it’s back to the printed versions for me.
RickyLinus about 13 years ago
Unico… come sempre… :-)
Dual about 13 years ago
Requesting the strips’ original date, as on the other website.
Also, FWIW, the daily strips are distorted a bit: stretched wider than they should be.
chuck_henebry about 13 years ago
In general, this feels like a downgrade. I don’t know why peanuts.com doesn’t host their own strips, the way Dilbert.com does.
Dilbert.com has fantastic quality—ironic, given that Scott Adams’ line art lends itself to low quality reproduction.
mac47 about 13 years ago
That’s the spirit, Charlie Brown! Be like Beethoven!
P.S. Thanks for the tip, Hobbes.
Hobbes Premium Member about 13 years ago
Hi puppybreath
No, I’m not a computer expert, but I try to learn what I can in the area of a computer’s most important function, which is to display comic strips. As a result, I may sound like a computer expert to comic strip readers, but to a true computer expert I sound more like a comic strip reader. What I wrote here was a combination of some of my previous knowledge and some things I figured out by experimenting with using different web browsers to view Peanuts in GoComics.
In my spare time, I do volunteer Java programming for NASA. (Just kidding.)
pamlicorat about 13 years ago
Hang in there Charlie Brown, the first inning will end soon.
T. Shepherd creator about 13 years ago
LOL! I love Peanuts!
Karen345 about 13 years ago
This is very nice news.
Kevin Jordan about 13 years ago
Still no RSS feed?
vzs1022 about 13 years ago
Glad Peanuts is here!
chashall about 13 years ago
Any chance you might add the original date of the strip being shown?. Thanks.
Bronkster Premium Member about 13 years ago
Hobbes, the information you provided is greatly appreciated, but I would still prefer that GoComics take the imitative to resolve the enlargement problem as opposed to millions of readers needing to switch browsers. The ‘other’ comic site handled Peanuts beautifully - even allowing me to read the tiny copyright print between the panels - so I know it can be done without ME having to jump through hoops.
Again, your efforts are admirable, but I would rather see an organized effort made by us - the loyal reader fanbase - to encourage GoComics to upgrade or update or upsomething to fix the problem.
In fact, I’m lookin’ at the “Contact Us” button right now …!
kfaatz925 about 13 years ago
Personally, I think Beethoven belongs in every conversation. ;)
gofinsc about 13 years ago
Did anybody else get the “Lucy in right field” strip in your local papers today (March 1), rather than this one? They are both dated 3-1!
Paying Too Much Attention Premium Member about 13 years ago
GoComics has so many excellent comics, including now Peanuts, I really hope they decide it’s in the best interests of the readers and the creators to display them properly. It’s disrespectful to the creators, especially one as esteemed as Charles M. Schulz.
The ironic thing is, he made the strip super-simple because of the shrinking comic strips at the time (around 1950), but now even small it just doesn’t look good online. It’s not right.
Hobbes Premium Member about 13 years ago
Yes, all of the comics on GoComics have poorer resolution than ComicsDotCom, so they need to change their entire system. It’s just more obvious with the Peanuts dailies, because the shape makes them so small. Calvin and Hobbes dailies are no wider than Peanuts, but they are about twice as tall, so the characters are bigger to begin with and it’s not as irritating.
GoComics seems to be working with an original that is 600 pixels wide and then just enlarging it using poor enlarging software. ComicsDotCom seemed to have separate originals that were large to begin with.
u.nanimous about 13 years ago
Original publish date March 3, 1964.
Does anybody at gocomics.com read these posts? If they do, do they ever take care of problems everyone constantly complains about?
hopeandjoy2 about 13 years ago
My Sunday Peanuts looked wonderful on Windows XP… very clear. This strip seems smaller and it does seem a bit pixilated when double-clicked. It is not as good as on Comics.com
COWBOY7 about 13 years ago
It’s Schroeder for goodness sakes, Charlie Brown!
Rakkav about 13 years ago
Hobbes et al., all you have to do in Internet Exploiter (wink) is go to the right hand corner of the window and click on the enlarge tab. You can enlarge the whole page, including the comic strip, up to 400% if you like, without changing the size of the window itself. A tad clunky compared to some other browsers’ approaches perhaps, but it more than gets the job done.