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Board avatars screw up page for a few seconds...

Post by evengangstersreadtapeop » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:34 pm

Is it just my computer, or do the avatars take up the entire screen for a few seconds before getting resized?? Some people are linking to huge detailed photos that stretch everything beyond the page. It makes browsing very hard! Is there any kind of solution to this?

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Post by Scodiddly » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:39 pm

I used to make a stink about this, but basically gave up.

The problem is that a fair number of people have linked avatar images that are big. The software that generates the webpages here resize the images... but only after the images have all downloaded. Some people have avatars that are a full page JPEG, which is not very considerate of people who don't have broadband. But the TOMB software doesn't prevent this, nor does it give any hint back to the big-avatar people that it's a problem.

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Post by mjau » Mon Aug 04, 2008 5:48 pm

When I was one of the offending, someone PM'd me and kindly mentioned what the problem was, so I changed it. Maybe try PMing those with really huge avatars.

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Post by RefD » Mon Aug 04, 2008 8:30 pm

yah, there's a resizing delay.
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Post by cutsnake » Tue Aug 05, 2008 5:03 am

It's a pain.

I use the Adblock plugin in Firefox to block the big images. There's probably other selective image blockers, maybe even for Internet Explorer.

Helps a bit.

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