Most boards I frequent have a limit for physical avatar image dimensions. Here, it seems that anything goes...and there are just enough users with table-busting avatars to make it reeeeeeally annoying.
I may be in the (or perhaps *the*) minority here...but is there any possible hope of implementing and enforcing (the software will do this for you, actually, I run a phpBB board myself :) ) a limit on avatar size?
Not a huge issue, I'm guessing, since apparently noone else has complained in the last few months...but it bothers me, and I'm speaking out. :)
No, we actually do have a limit. It's either 90 x 90 or 80 x 80, I think. I can't remember which. Nick would know. Is there an overblown avatar eating up the screen somewhere we should be aware of?
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The avatars seem fine. It's some of the sig images that are killing -- no limit there, right?
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No, we also like the sig images to be limited to 80 by 80.
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No, we also like the sig images to be limited to 80 by 80.
That may be the request, but that is not the limit. I just checked the properties on one sig image: about 150 x 370
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Yep, sig images aren't limited.
Of course, today I can't find the thread I was looking at that spurred me to post about this. It was definitely an avatar though, and not a sig image - the sigs don't generally break the tables, they just look big. :)
It occurred to me this morning, though, that I've seen the same thing sporadically on other phpBB sites as well, and it may just be a function of the either the code not catching the avatar size when the page is generated, or the browser just choking on something. I've seen far, far stranger things happen with PHP and HTML/CSS.
I'll keep my eyes peeled and will let y'all know if I see it happen again. :)
Think I've seen what you mean. Sometimes my browser will place the GN logo to the left of the forum frame instead of up on top. Happens in spurts.
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good example of this (not that i care) would be geetar66
It occurred to me this morning, though, that I've seen the same thing sporadically on other phpBB sites as well, and it may just be a function of the either the code not catching the avatar size when the page is generated, or the browser just choking on something. I've seen far, far stranger things happen with PHP and HTML/CSS.
I've noticed that, on occasion, a page will look like it's "pushed" way over to the right, with blank white space on the left. It only happens once in a while and it's usually cleared up by the next time I go to that particular page. I had never associated it with image size, though. I always just figured that it was just a browser glitch.
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Dredging this thread up from the past...
If you look here:
http://forums.guitarnoise.com/viewtopic.php?t=14220
The user "Quill" has a rather large avatar pic that, at the time of this post, is displaying the same size in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
Now I know I'm not hallucinating. 8)
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Anyone that wants to downsize or up size any graphics can download IrfanView for free. Image then resize is the option then do a save as.
In general, it would be good if folks would limit the size of images in both the avatar and the signature. There's also a signature photo around that is quite large and skews the images on the screen.
I tend to think people simply aren't aware that size does matter. If they do realize it, they'll shrink.
Well we all shine on--like the moon and the stars and the sun.
-- John Lennon
For some strange reason the 80x80 limit is being enforced by phpbb randomly. It is set for the avatar.
