topic Re: Automatic re-sizing of avatars in Community Site Feedback

Automatic re-sizing of avatars

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:48:39 GMT

Another minor niggle;
Its still possible to use a huge image for an avatar, which is downloaded in full and rendered as a smaller image by your browser.
The example I've added to mine is resized and thus appears to be a normal sized avatar, but is in fact a 3.7MB file. Get a load of them on a page, and folks could soon be wondering where all their http useage has come from.
A real pain if folks are having to use a slow connection to read the boards. (Could cost around £4 to view the avatar example I used if you were accessing via Post-Paid Orange GPRS - supposing you could have been bothered to wait for the download!)
One advantage of not using the re-sizing option is that large avatars can be identified much more easily and removed. This way its pretty hard.

Re: Automatic re-sizing of avatars

Kelly — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:30:45 GMT

That's definitely a problem.

Re: Automatic re-sizing of avatars

chillypenguin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:57:25 GMT

You PlusNet avatar looks a little stretched.
Chilly

Re: Automatic re-sizing of avatars

Colin — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:45:42 GMT

Quote from: James_H
PS - I'm gonna remove the silly size one now that the point has been illustrated.

That's annoying, I can't tell if I've tweaked the configuration correctly or not 😛

Re: Automatic re-sizing of avatars

Colin — Tue, 29 May 2007 13:46:43 GMT

Think this works correctly, now.