I have not seen this in any of the mod forums yet. But i'm sorry if i overlooked it anywhere.
My idea is to use remote linked avatars. A user can link to an avatar on his own webspace. This causes less serverload and most important in my opionion: less bandwith.
Is there a way to implement this to the forums/mods?
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
and if the hosts go offline all you will see is red crosses...
Correct but i know 2 forums who use this method (combined they have about 50.000 active users) and it seems to work just fine. Maybe you can add an option to let users upload their own avatars to the forums webserver. But this increases traffic again..
You can also build an image size check together with that option (ie the size of an image must be less then 100kb or something).
DoraMoon: thanks for the link! I'll go take a look
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
I don't think that script would work very well. The script requires that you don't set a size on the page for the image. Then it detects the "no image" size of 28 x 30, and it only works in IE. So a user can use an avatar image that would be too large, and definitly kill the look of your site.
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quote:Originally posted by Gremlin
You can get around the image not found errors with a little scripting though so that if they dont exist you display a transparent gif instead.
you can do that with your javascipt as well and check the .size attribute :) using the size I've seen another script that checks for broken image links, I think either a size of 0 or something else constant is returned if you get the image via your script. (not a big fan of javascript here myself so not 100% certain how)
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