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I feel that we need a reminder of this. I've noticed a disturbing trend of late for people to have multiple large graphic blocks or a large graphic block followed by a large section of text. I'm not trying to be a party-pooper but we have the rules in place for a reason.
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Whew! I came in just under the wire!
V--450 X 100--V 19.something Kbs |
I have always been curious as to what
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So I guess I should remove my signature?
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I assume mine are OK?? At least I know the size is.
Does the Mt.Dew one fall under the rule Yhor mentioned? If so I will remove immediately as I DO NOT want to be banned from here.. -- EDIT -- Actually I just looked at the properties of the Child's Play one .. it exceeds the width limit by 45 pixels.. does it need to go ? |
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Yhor, et al: Gimme a break. We're not about to ban people for the "Child's Play" ones. I had one myself for a while. ;) We also aren't going to ban people for the Mountain Dew ones, because it is a Blizzard approved contest. But the Mountain Dew ones are causing a problem because people are using them in conjunction with their regular sig graphics, which makes the overall sig block very large. If people want to use the Mountain Dew ones right now, we'd ask that they temporarily remove their regular ones, until the Mountain Dew contest is finished and those ones are removed, at which point they can go back to their regular one. Just use common sense here, guys. The difference of a few pixels in width or height is one thing. It's if it gets really wide, causing the horizontal size of the page to get screwed up, or if it is really tall, causing a lot of "wasted space" and vertical scrolling - that's when we're going to ask you guys to change them. We aren't unreasonable, you should know us well enough by now. :) |
Consider it done :)
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this may or may not be "off topic". if it is, i apologize.
right now, i have a wad of standard game character "signature" images assembled together in an animated GIF, standard rotating signature effect, and i am embedding that in my signature. i expect this animated GIF exceeds the preferred size. instead, i would like to be able to construct some sort of PHP or javascript snippet that selects a random single/atomic graphic, from a variety of externally hosted images referenced by URI, and embed that in my signature, and have WoWI interpret that script on page view. but i don't see any way to do that right now. perhaps an enhancement to the site, to permit simple scripts, accompanied by a tutorial? having to externally host 20 lines of PHP somewhere seems overkill for this purpose (though maybe that is much easier to do than i think it is), and i have not yet been able to find a public domain "rotating signature generator" that does this in any form other than uploading/hosting full images, which also seems overkill for this purpose (IMO, easier for me to cut/paste into an animated GIF at my end and just upload that). is there anything of an "open" nature anywhere that can do this simply by taking a list of user-provided URIs, referencing images, wrap that list of URIs up in a "randomizer" that picks one, and provide a URI of its own that executes the randomizer? ideally, i would like to just reference individual images directly from the game character "signature" image site (and to tell you the truth, i have no idea why the game signature sites themselves do not provide a "randomizer" or "rotator" feature like this, but they don't seem to do so). |
You know, I actually looked for this before too. I wanted a random slogan for my signature that would change based on a set interval. I spent a lot of time trying to google for something like it but could not find anything.
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nvm, I think I figured it out.
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You'll have to rename it to *.php and rehost it on another server in the same directory as the images to make it work properly. Eg: www.google.com/omghax/norly/uhaxdgoogl/cycle.php http://www.google.com/omghax/norly/u...ogl/image1.png http://www.google.com/omghax/norly/u...ogl/image2.png http://www.google.com/omghax/norly/u...ogl/image3.png etc Then to actually use it, you put the URL to the PHP script in place of the image URL: [ img]www.google.com/omghax/norly/uhaxdgoogl/image1.png[/ img] becomes [ img]www.google.com/omghax/norly/uhaxdgoogl/cycle.php[/ img] Without the spaces, of course. |
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have not been able to find something like this yet. |
I know exactly what you are looking for acapela.
I sent you a PM. |
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If I do the img code, it seems to load forever, but if I browse to cycle.php directly, it is there working perfect. I just tested here and it does not work. Must have protection here ;) |
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It actually is not HTML.
I tried [ img]http://subdomain.domain.tld/cycle/cycle.php[/ img] And it did not work. Probably still under the same circumstances, though. ;) |
edit: alright, using the PHP that Psychophan7 provided, and the free web hosting site that Cralor supplied, this is doable (about 10 minutes to figure out how it works and upload/configure everything), at the cost of having to refresh all my images on the hosting site at intervals. each individual signature image is around 20kb.
here is the result (refresh to view the image changing at random): ----- ----- however, it seems that, as far as a busy topic would be concerned (i.e. the comments section for Aloft, where my posts appear numerous times per visible page), all of these rotated signature images would get used anyway (i.e. no real efficiency/download volume win, on page view, versus an animated GIF containing all of them). given how cranky some folks on the web seem to be about these things, i am going to wait for the site admins here to tell me a rotator like this is OK before i change my signature. referencing an externally hosted URI of whatever nature (animated GIF or hosted rotator PHP), that just gets embedded in served HTML, should theoretically not be any skin off of WoWI's teeth either way, as long as i am not foisting megabytes worth of data on the end-user in the process (which i am not). Quote:
maybe i am better off with a plain animated GIF after all? |
That quite possibly might actually be the best option. I was really hoping that there was a better option than that - and you almost think why no one has created something to help with this.
I was only curious because I wanted to make an animated or "change on reload" script that would show a list of quotes, facts, or sayings I came across. I've found things that make the quotes and sayings for you, but I'd wish there was a custom option. I'm sure there is a hidden gem out there that we have not found, but until then this GIF animation is probably the best option at this point. |
Hai,
is mine big??? do i need to remove it? thanks .. |
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however i slice/dice it, for a "rotator" capability, i have to download all of those images and "post-process" them in some way, rather than just reference them where they live. my fault for building so many characters... i had a lot of them at the level cap at one point, too many to meaningfully progress at this point. |
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Ok I have yet to try images, but before I was using HTML. Might that be the case because it is trying to show HTML tags and such rather than viewing it from the URL working fine?
I'll try images next when I get the chance. |
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so, if a user is viewing a page where i have a large number of posts, going to all this trouble to host PHP and randomize images will not necessarily save them anything versus using the animated GIF. of course, the animated GIF always guarantees the worst case, in terms of download size, so maybe it is worth it. if there is a way to randomize URIs, however, saving me the trouble of transferring and "post-processing" images, i could see that as a definite win :). |
If you have 5 images in the directory, and you have 20 posts on a page, then the PHP script should only load one of the five images for all 20 posts, instead of all 5 throughout the 20 posts.
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(Technically, I guess a browser could reload the image again every time it's seen in a page, but I don't know any browser that does that.) |
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Whee! I R FIXED!!!!
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