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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

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Originally posted by RogueJSK:
That's because you're not browsing from a slow connection, as explained in my previous post.

I think it’s because he’s not using an archaic platform/browser.

I have 180 Mbps download speed and I still notice it for a fraction of a second. I imagine 40 Mbps would notice it even more.

My Internet connection is Sprint’s cellular network. Download speed is ~70 Mbps for my iPhone X, and ~20 Mbps for my MacBook (older modem). All avatars, including my former 119x120 pixel avatar, are displayed at the same size, and I never see the “jumping” that some folks mention. That’s because I don’t use archaic browsers. Safari on iPhone, Safari or Firefox on MacBook.

Good grief Pipe. Give it a rest.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

My Internet connection is Sprint’s cellular network. Download speed is ~70 Mbps for my iPhone X, and ~20 Mbps for my MacBook (older modem). All avatars, including my former 119x120 pixel avatar, are displayed at the same size, and I never see the “jumping” that some folks mention. That’s because I don’t use archaic browsers. Safari on iPhone, Safari or Firefox on MacBook.

Dude, it has absolutely nothing to do with your browser. NOTHING.

He's just being a curmudgeon.

Seems like he doesn't like being called out (again), and doesn't want to concede that he was willfully violating the forum's avatar size rule, and had ignored multiple requests from fellow members in the past to correct it. So he has to convince himself that it must be everyone else's fault, in order to assuage his own wounded ego. Everyone else must just be luddites with archaic technology.

But if he's as technologically enlightened as he believes, you'd think he'd understand that his avatar was not just 119x120, as he has repeatedly claimed. It was 408x412, nearly 7x the allowable size. You can see the original image in its original size in my first post on Page 1.

That, or he's just trolling.

Could you please stop being a jerk. Several people have asked you to change it. Instead of saying "I'm sorry, I'll change it," you blame others for your problem. Just follow the rules, it's not hard.

The fact you need to be asked this many times says something about you. Get over yourself, there are 80,000 other people here.

Easy there, Skins... He already changed it to the correctly-sized version a couple days ago.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Orguss:
Bumping so rscalzo and jimbo54 can see their new avatars.

I've posted a resized avatar for rscalzo more than once and have simply been ignored. Hopefully this time you'll be able to get his attention.

That's just ignorant on his part. Perhaps a Mod or someone esteemed on the Forum could email him calling him out on this....

BTW his last post was 17 March.

I didn't know we had an iggy button?

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Originally posted by Woodman:

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Originally posted by flashguy:
Min is an animated gif of 115x113 pixels. I created it umpteen years ago and have no idea how to resize it. It also only resides on my computer right now, because it was hosted on another gun board and that has recently gone to a new server and the avatars are all messed up there.

flashguy

Here's your Santa.

https://avatarhost.files.wordp...1/flashguy-santa.jpg

Thank you. (Won't need that one for a while.)

flashguy

Pretty sure mine is ok...

Having recently (last weekend) moved from 1 gig fiber to 4G LTE out in the sticks I've noticed a bunch of this stuff the last few days.

I waited 56 years to move to the place we live now but man it sucks not having decent net connectivity.

Thanks to all that have helped others on this issue, Mark

Add henryaz's avatar now too. Gesh!

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...470084934#7470084934

After dealing with Pipe Smoker, I think my desire to help has petered out. Maybe in a few months....

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Originally posted by Orguss:
After dealing with Pipe Smoker, I think my desire to help has petered out. Maybe in a few months....

I hear ya. I just don't understand why it seems so difficult for folks to comply with such a simple requirement. Those that don't or won't really frost my proverbials.

Well here's henryaz's properly sized avatar. It may not be as sharp as Orguss can make them but it is the proper size.

https://imgur.com/MlnUueE

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Originally posted by bald1:
Add henryaz's avatar now too. Gesh!

It is a vector graphic, which I scaled down to 60x60. Right-click on the avatar and say "Open in a new tab", or "Save image to downloads". Does it still show big? When I do that, I get the 60x60 image (Safari browser)
 
This is my first time playing with scalable vector graphics. I suspect yours (and perhaps other) browsers may be re-scaling it back to the original size.
 
If that's the case, I'll find another avatar.
 

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Well here's henryaz's properly sized avatar. It may not be as sharp as Orguss can make them but it is the proper size.

You scaled it down in a raster (pixel) based program, thus the loss of clarity. Vector graphics actually redraw themselves when you scale. It's obvious different browsers have different degrees of support for SVG.
 

Henry, it appears as the size I posted above which is MUCH larger than the ~ 60x60. This whether I open a thread page where you have posted or I click "view image" on your avatar. It, like others cited in this thread, flashes full size until the forum software strangles it into submission.

And yes, I D/Led your original large image with Greenshot and used Faststone to resize it.

I'm using Waterfox 56.0.4.1 64 bit (version of Firefox) with Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit SP1. But as explained earlier in the thread, these issues aren't browser or OS related but rather connection speed and the actual size of the image used as an avatar.

 
I just checked this thread in Win-10 using Edge and IE-11. Both of those browsers display the avatar as 60x60. This is one of those areas where the browser may make a difference. Which one do you use, bald1? A SVG (scalable vector graphic) retains all of the information in it about the original size, even though it has been resized. The actual size of the image I am using is 60x60, but the original size info is retained in there, too, in XML format.
 
I am just genuinely curious about how SVG is handled.
 
 

Well, Orguss successfully resized my animated gif avatar to 58x60 and now it's working again. I liked it better at its original size (113x115) but rules are rules. I thank him for his assistance.

flashguy

Henry, I've indicated my browser and OS above. Here's what I get when I examine the properties of your avatar 451 x 476. Apparently svg formats, unlike jpg and gif, don't work properly scaled with this forum software as avatars.

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Originally posted by bald1:
Henry, I've indicated my browser and OS above. Here's what I get when I examine the properties of your avatar 451 x 476.

But you also see in parentheses that it has been scaled. I'm gonna stop playing with SVG graphics until I understand them better.