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Auto skrinking of avatars? - Rhiannon - 11-20-2003
Quote:Lachie Dazdarian Wrote:I'm sure this forum could be modifyied on that way so that user can pick if he wants to use an avatar under 80*80 or a bigger one shrinked to size preset by the admin.There are some problems with that. See further points.
1. Big avatars require a lot of space
2. Have you thought about telephone modem (28/56k) users?
3. If the routine that shrank the avatars would be client-sided, there'd be much more code to download and to process, thereby slowing down the page downlad.
4. If the routine that shrank the avatars would be server-sided, the server would have to be a powerful computer to deal with many of that routine calls.
1) Unless the avatar is flash, it's not going to be a very large size, and if the size limit here is 80x80, what's the prob?
2) I'm a 56ker and i dont see the problem with avatars or sigs. It's not that slow.
3) How is the routine client-side? It's on the server.
4) You can use a resizing script on a Pentium 233. And once the pic is uploaded and shrunk by the avatar resizing routine, the resized avatar is stored on the server, hence it will always download as a 80x80 max pic.
Auto skrinking of avatars? - Neo - 11-20-2003
Quote:1) Unless the avatar is flash, it's not going to be a very large size, and if the size limit here is 80x80, what's the prob?Oh, I took Lachie's proposition as dynamic, but indeed, as you told, it can also be done static yes. I forgot about that, sry.
2) I'm a 56ker and i dont see the problem with avatars or sigs. It's not that slow.
3) How is the routine client-side? It's on the server.
4) You can use a resizing script on a Pentium 233. And once the pic is uploaded and shrunk by the avatar resizing routine, the resized avatar is stored on the server, hence it will always download as a 80x80 max pic.
Auto skrinking of avatars? - oracle - 11-21-2003
But but but.... it will already be resized if you add height="80" and width="80" tags to the image tag, won't it?
Auto skrinking of avatars? - Zap - 11-21-2003
Oracle: Yes it will, but the browser will download the whole image, and then shrink it. So you get no speed improvement there.
Auto skrinking of avatars? - oracle - 11-21-2003
Aah. Well, perhaps if the image is too big the avatar could be swapped for a "please reduce your avatar size" one
Auto skrinking of avatars? - Zap - 11-21-2003
It says so if you try to upload a too-big picture.
Auto skrinking of avatars? - oracle - 11-21-2003
No, for externally linked pictures, they aren't currently checked...