PNG Avatars

[St Leo]

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]

Well, not everyone's browser supports PNG.

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

[Hueij]

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]

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

[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.

[tniem]

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]

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

[Case]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[H Tower]

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