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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
Yes BUT that's part of the problem... no image geometry on these things means that they change the size and shape of the tables where you're reading text. Right in the middle of scanning a paragraph, it may move to another place on the screen after the image finally loads and pushes the display around.
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So, you specify image geometry too. Say, your avatar/icon can be no bigger than 100 x 100 pixels, and no more than 40kb. Those are the limits for the
LiveJournal standard style page formats. The
AV Forum allows no larger than 40 x 40, IIRC. Stick 'em in a table of the maximum allowable size in the left hand column below user's name, and set the table dimensions no bigger than appropriate for the space, then let the picture float as a cell within the table.
Actually, if you really want to spare the modem users [there but for the grace of a nearby CO go I] you can limit the size more radically. My avatar image on AV Forum is only a little over 2k, and my largest avatar on LiveJournal is only 6k. A limit of 10k should be more than adequate, unless people want to use animated gifs.
I know it's kind of 'tasteless and tacky' and juvenile, but I just like avatars.
And I've seen some pretty creative and amusing ones on LJ.