Auto skrinking of avatars?

[Rhiannon]

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.