PNG Avatars

St Leo · August 14, 2002, 13:22

Are there any plans for the enabling of PNG avatars? My latest one takes up 7.67 kB as a GIF and 3.53 kB as a PNG.

Vlad Antlerkov · August 14, 2002, 13:51

Well, not everyone's browser supports PNG.

Damn this pandering to those idiots who still insist on using Mosaic.

Hueij · August 14, 2002, 16:27

Hehe, my Fireworks' PNG's are always at least a 100 times larger, with all the layers and things...

Seriously, I think it's a good idea

Jay Bee · August 14, 2002, 16:39

Hueij, your inside is out and your outside is in?

St Leo · August 14, 2002, 17:20

Damn this pandering to those idiots who still insist on using Mosaic.

Actually, Netscape 4.x is the one at fault.

Opera and Mozilla both support PNG fully; MSIE manages as long as you don't try to do too much with transparency.

tniem · August 14, 2002, 20:26

Quote:

Originally posted by St Leo
Damn this pandering to those idiots who still insist on using Mosaic.

Actually, Netscape 4.x is the one at fault.

Opera and Mozilla both support PNG fully; MSIE manages as long as you don't try to do too much with transparency.

For, maybe the first time, I can say, "Damn MSIE"

H Tower · August 14, 2002, 20:35

i thought that PNGs were a bloated file type? at least they are for me when i convert jpegs to PNGs

Case · August 14, 2002, 20:41

Leo, when I first saw this thread I thought that you were after Papua New Guinea style avatars, much like the one modeled by former Australian PM Paul Keating here:

(this picture played a significant role in his defeat in the 1996 election

)

St Leo · August 14, 2002, 22:04

i thought that PNGs were a bloated file type? at least they are for me when i convert jpegs to PNGs

On the upside, they are lossless and patent-free.

tniem · August 14, 2002, 22:13

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Originally posted by H Tower
i thought that PNGs were a bloated file type? at least they are for me when i convert jpegs to PNGs

PNG is designed to replace gifs. Images such as pics will always be smaller as a jpeg because of the way their files are setup, meanwhile smaller images with less color will be smaller with a PNG/gif.

For more info: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/FAQ/standards.html

Urban Ranger · August 15, 2002, 00:06

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Originally posted by H Tower
i thought that PNGs were a bloated file type? at least they are for me when i convert jpegs to PNGs

These two are different beasts. JPEG is a "lossy" compression, meaning that you lose information when converting an image into JPEG. PNG was primarily developed to replace GIF, which uses a compression algorithm which patent is held by Unisys.

Moonsinger · August 15, 2002, 09:14

Since I am not even qualified for a custom avatar, there is no hope for me having a PNG avatar.

That's 500 post limit is too high, it would take me another decade to get there.

tniem · August 15, 2002, 10:22

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Originally posted by Moonsinger
That's 500 post limit is too high, it would take me another decade to get there.

They used to have a time limit where if you were a member for a certain amount of time you would get a custom avatar. I never have used one, so I wouldn't know if that is still the case or when they got rid of it.

ixnay · August 15, 2002, 13:22

Nope, they got rid of the 1 year rule, so it's just 500 posts required now.

H Tower · August 15, 2002, 14:56

if you complain about the lack of the on year limit long enough you'll get your 500 posts

rah · August 15, 2002, 16:08

Unless you're really blatant about it. Then it might take lots longer

Rich

Shadowstrike · August 16, 2002, 15:02

Or you could have been lucky and gotten in when spam posts in the OTF gave post count.

Then 500 posts is a cinch.

Purple · August 16, 2002, 15:02

Edit: sorry, wrong information deleted.

Urban Ranger · August 19, 2002, 05:30

You could even pull a Mao back then

ixnay · August 29, 2002, 16:41

*bump*

Just so you know, the latest vbulletin release (2.2.7) released this week adds support for PNG avatars...

tniem · August 29, 2002, 23:35

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Originally posted by ixnay37
*bump*

Just so you know, the latest vbulletin release (2.2.7) released this week adds support for PNG avatars...

I would guess that Markos won't upgrade for a while now. So I guess it all comes down to whether he could make the change with the code or whether it is hardwired in vBB and only can be done when upgrading happens.

Skanky Burns · August 30, 2002, 02:19

If its available as part of the standard package, then its probably available as a hack somewhere. But I couldn't be bothered looking.