Mark, can you add a new BB-code?

[Gramphos]

Can you add this BB code. It would make it possible to add bars to the ranking in Locutus POLL without overrunning the size limit
NAME: bar
REPLACEMENT TEXT: <img src="images/polls/bar{option}-l.gif" height="10" width="3"><img src="images/polls/bar{option}.gif" height="10" width="{param}"><img src="images/polls/bar{option}-r.gif" height="10" width="3">


This would not be used anywhere else so you don't have to add it to the list of codes.

[Gramphos]

This one (or similar) wold also be needed
NAME: bar0
REPLACEMENT TEXT: <img src="images/polls/bar{option}-l.gif" height="10" width="3"><img src="images/polls/bar{option}-r.gif" height="10" width="3">


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[ixnay]

Could you tell us what exactly this would accomplish?

It would make it possible to add bars to the ranking in Locutus POLL without overrunning the size limit

[Gramphos]

The limit of a page is 20000 bytes. If you would write all that code for 120 civs you must understand that [bar=x]width[/bar] is mush less memory consuming then <img src="images/polls/barx-l" width="3" height="10"><img src="images/polls/barx" width="width" height="10"><img src="images/polls/barx-r" width="3" height="10"> for each post. With the smaller code it will be possible to add bars ass for standard polls to all the civs in Locutus' POLL.

[MarkG]

when all the bar codes are replaced with the html code, how big will the page size be? better to make a graph on excel and attach the image.....

[Gramphos]

The header is counted from the first entry, and that is the only entry with header. (Current Header: 678)
<TABLE> <TR><TH>Type</TH><TH>Including header</TH><TH>Excluding header</TH></TR> <TR><TD>Current (no ranking)</TD><TD>18756</TD><TD>18078</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Top 16 bared BB-code</TD><TD></TD><TD>19489</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Top 16 bared BB-code (no empty ending cells)</TD><TD></TD><TD>18537</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Top 16 bared HTML</TD><TD></TD><TD>21969</TD></TR> <TR><TD>Top 16 bared HTML (no empty ending cells)</TR><TD></TD><TD>21017</TD></TR></TABLE>
Saved from no empty ending cells (top 16): 952
Saved from using BB-codes 2480 bytes (16 civs) = 155 bytes/civ

No empty ending cells means that the entries without ranking will have one cell less then the other entries. (AFAIK no browsers have problem with this)

Also the bar0 code is not needed as no 0-length bar will appear as bars only are significant for the top 16.

As it looks right now the only one that would fit inside the limit is the "Top 16 bared BB-code (no empty ending cells)"
And attaching a image is not good as it mostly are cashed even after a update, and also would need a new thread.

<SMALL>Edit: forgot to end the table, screwed up the entire page.</SMALL>