ZIP vs Non-ZIP

[Eddie73]

Hi,

Wondering why some uploaders put their comics into a zip/rar format, and not directly into a comic-book reader format?

I always convert these to .cbr/.cbz for storage/reading, and imagine most do the same.

[Yoc]

It's the uploaders choice Eddie.  It's not hard to rename them as you know.
We're just happy to have them.  I used to use rar files all the time but now only use zip/cbz.

The only hard fast rule we'd like everyone to follow is 'Covers as the first jpg' and do not rename a rar file as a cbz or zip file as a cbr.  It breaks our Preview feature.
Oh and no PNG files instead of jpg please.

[watson387]

The only hard fast rule we'd like everyone to follow is 'Covers as the first jpg' and do not rename a rar file as a cbz or zip file as a cbr.

Actually some reader software won't work if you rename the files this way anyway so there is really no reason to do this. I've always wondered why people felt the need to rename files this way. I think it's just ignorance of what the extensions (cbz,cbr) actually mean. lol

[John C]

Yes, it's part that (someone says "CBR and CBZ are just renamed RAR and ZIP files," and the message gets garbled), but it's also lazy application programming to not, y'know, check to make sure you have the right thing.  It's easier on some platforms than others, but software made for distribution shouldn't ever take the user's word for things that the user shouldn't care about.

And I say that as a programmer who's been guilty of getting it wrong.