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