Thread: How do you get animated Avatars ?

I won't comment on that, but -- Salem's avatar has to be the best programming-related one.

Originally Posted by Mario F.

Oh. So you meant "fair enough to me", instead of "not a problem to me".

I'm saying what goes, goes. If animated avatars aren't allowed, then they aren't, period.
In my opinion, they should be allowed since they don't bug me and can be quite cool sometimes.
But I also respect that they were disabled for reasons stated already.

Originally Posted by twomers

If gifs annoy people, why should stationary be any different? Ergo disable avatars.

Naturally there must be something that distinguishes both that makes one acceptable and the other not.

If animated gifs were allowed starting today, I wouldn't be complaining. I'm not fundamentalist about it. Just find them distracting. Particularly on a forum of this nature in which I prefer to pay more attention to what is being written then having my eyes constantly trying to drift towards the source of movement in the browser window.

The decision was made for some reason and I bet that it had nothing to do with my feelings about it, but instead because of space and loading time considerations, which are far more important.

As for disabling avatars altogether. I'd vote yes on the spot.

Originally Posted by twomers

Somewhat ironic then that you have an avatar, huh?

Ah, but that is because I can.

I'm only pulling your leg, Mario.

Ok, but afterwards I need a massage.

The decision was made for some reason and I bet that it had nothing to do with my feelings about it, but instead because of space and loading time considerations, which are far more important.

Yes -- I never really thought about it, but all of those avatars take up a lot of space. Checking a few random pages here seems to indicate that approximately one member in 15 has an avatar. As the maximum size of an avatar is 19.5KB, and there are approximately 30,000 users, that adds up to about 39MB. (Of course, with static avatars, I should think that very few of those static avatars are 19.5KB in size, but still, that's quite a lot of space.)

And there is the bandwidth and transfer rates. As a 28.8KB dialup user, I can tell you how much I appreciate how fast CBoard is to load, compared with other bulletin boards.

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Originally Posted by Mario f.

Developing ??, a large scale fantasy PBeM wargame.

What happened to MURK? [/edit]

What happened to MURK?

err...

... fell in love with wxWidgets and it proved ideal to pursue another long-time dream. There's a post in the games forum about it with "Mediaeval" in the title if you want to learn more. Meanwhile blame wxWidgets. It deserves.

Lots of code has been done after that. But I'll refrain from posting about it for a couple more months at which time I hope have a working client application you folks can comment on.

Well, best of luck in all your programming endeavours, Murk or Media-eval or otherwise.

> And BTW it is Medieval not Mediaeval.

Actually both forms are acceptable being that the latter is old-style, from all that I know.

Check out some of the first paragraph (second? It's the Usage one) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86

Ah. Thanks for that. So, the correct old form must be used with the grapheme instead. Good to know.

Well, you could use the "ae" separate form, but to be "medieval", yes, you'd want one character.

Both classical and present practice is to write the letters separately, but the ligature was used in medieval and early modern writings . . . .

Of course, that would probably play havoc with strange character sets.