blueshift
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:19 PM |
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Avatar size limit
A suggestion, code to limit the maximum size of an avatar? the massive ones make page layout inefficient and require a lot of scrolling. Not the end
of the world, but irritating.
Just floating this for reaction and can investigate some CSS or whatever that might do it if needed.
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joneh
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:27 PM |
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I don't think there should be a limit on the size of pretty women.
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mookaloid
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:29 PM |
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What size would you suggest? are you just thinking width or height too?
Cheers
Mook
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:32 PM |
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Nothing over a big cuddly size 20.
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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COREdevelopments
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Confused but excited.
Nothing over a big cuddly size 20.
 size 20!!
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speedyxjs
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:40 PM |
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I think it depends on what the avatar is.
If its some big ugly bloke - the smaller the better
If its some hot woman or car - the bigger the better 
How long can i resist the temptation to drop a V8 in?
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rallyingden
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 09:56 PM |
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I think on the whole Avitars do not cause any problems. The only oversize one I've seen was posted by a member asking for help on how to reduce
it !!
RD 
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Fozzie
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 10:00 PM |
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The sites recommendation, as stated in the 'help' section is 150 pixels wide for avatars......
and not all members of this car builders site are male and over 18 ...........
Fozzie (Admin)
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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chriscook
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 10:08 PM |
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What about a limit on the size of photos posting within messages. Quite regularly they are bigger than normal screen resolutions. I think on
pistonheads they get reduced to 750px in the longest direction.
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 10:47 PM |
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I've been on other forums where the avatar is vetted when you enter it on the profile page - if it's bigger than the rules allow, it
doesn't get loaded. Simple.
The other way is to fix the size of the left-hand column, so if the avatar's too big then it falls out of the frame.
I still wish that we had a 'no avatars' switch, as those of us who work in a busy office find it difficult to display the site during the
day... 
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indykid
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| posted on 29/11/07 at 11:00 PM |
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i find long avatars as, if not more, annoying as massively wide ones.
when i'm at uni, i'm on my laptop and that means i have to scroll with the side of the touchpad. it takes aaaaaaaaages to read some
threads if everyone has silly long avatars. usually full length women................i come to a car forum for the cars though, so i'm swayed in
the small avatar direction
tom
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 05:29 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Fozzie
The sites recommendation, as stated in the 'help' section is 150 pixels wide for avatars......
and not all members of this car builders site are male and over 18 ...........
Fozzie (Admin)
So which one are you over 18 OR male .
Looking at your pictures I would say that you are NOT male, in that case you will just have to wait till you are OVER 18.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 08:33 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by indykid
when i'm at uni, i'm on my laptop and that means i have to scroll with the side of the touchpad. it takes aaaaaaaaages to read some
threads if everyone has silly long avatars. usually full length women................i come to a car forum for the cars though, so i'm swayed in
the small avatar direction
tom
As an aside, you can use PageDown or Spacebar to move down the page to save using the touchpad.
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donut
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 08:54 AM |
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You're over by 5 pixels Fozz, shame on you
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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McLannahan
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 09:45 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
I've been on other forums where the avatar is vetted when you enter it on the profile page - if it's bigger than the rules allow, it
doesn't get loaded. Simple.
The other way is to fix the size of the left-hand column, so if the avatar's too big then it falls out of the frame.
I still wish that we had a 'no avatars' switch, as those of us who work in a busy office find it difficult to display the site during the
day...
Not perfect but you could disable images showing? In IE it's in Internet Properties under the Advanced tab and then the Multimedia section.
It's possible in FFox too but can't remember where the option is off hand? If the site (which this has for most graphics) has used the ALT
tag correctly you only need hover over each image to see what it should be!
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Fozzie
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:10 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by donut
You're over by 5 pixels Fozz, shame on you
Ah...you noticed!  ......
You know me Andy-mate........always like to live life on 'the wild side'
JGG .....
Obviously trying to be subtle with regard to a gentle reminder to be 'thoughtful' to other forum members when posting scantily clad young
ladies as avatars........just didn't work! .... again!
And you are right.....I am not male but I am over 18
My personal opinions do NOT come into this...but I do get a tad annoyed with my 'Inbox' getting full of 'reported posts'
Fozzie 
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 12:48 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by McLannahan
Not perfect but you could disable images showing? In IE it's in Internet Properties under the Advanced tab and then the Multimedia section.
It's possible in FFox too but can't remember where the option is off hand? If the site (which this has for most graphics) has used the ALT
tag correctly you only need hover over each image to see what it should be!
Trouble with that is that you can't see the 'new message' icon when a topic's been updated.
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blueshift
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:02 PM |
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Yeah, most of the buttons are icons so you can't just turn off images. Plus, I like seeing people's avatars, I can spot familiar posters
by their picture much more intuitively than by reading a dry list of names.
I just find the sizes of some of them annoying. but, I'm an old time internet purist / pedant / grump.
If everyone could configure the maximum dimensions of avatars and inline images they wanted to see.. hooo, how sweet that would be.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:16 PM |
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Was that the wild size Fozzie or the wide size
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Fozzie
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:19 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by rusty nuts
Was that the wild size Fozzie or the wide size
Fozzie
'Racing is Life!...anything before or after is just waiting'....Steve McQueen
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:34 PM |
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For Firefox user there is an add-on called 'Image Zoom' that lets you resize the pictures in a webpage, I find it quite handy for all the
massively oversized pictures. You do have to click on each image to resize it though, there's probably a different add-on out there that'd
do it automatically...
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:41 PM |
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I use Firefox at home, and can use Adblock to 'lose' unwanted pictures in just a few seconds.
Unfortunately (in many ways) my new job is at an office that's 100% Microsnot, so I'm stuck with IE. Very sadly.
I really miss Firefox at work...
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 30/11/07 at 10:45 PM |
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In fact looking at it, it appears the latest version can resize all of the oversize images in a page now, instead of doing it one one by one. You
learn something new every day 
Just to rub it in some more
[Edited on 30/11/07 by martyn_16v]
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blueshift
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| posted on 1/12/07 at 11:47 AM |
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Cool, I'll have to look into this image zoom thing. If it caches the settings per-image (so I can permanently *plonk* annoying avatars) that
would be shweet.
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