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Originally Posted by cthree,Apr 7 2006, 11:30 PM
Gina, move your images up to the top of your sig so people will see them. People will still see your complete signature in your profile.
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Originally Posted by cthree,Apr 8 2006, 01:13 AM
Ok, I'll jump in...
Yes, I added javascript to crop signatures. It didn't seem to work so I left it. It seems from these reports that it does in fact work on IE but not the other browsers (that's a switch).
The size I used for testing was 600x200 pixels. The real size limit should be 600x300 which is where I just set it to. Eventually I'll figure out why this doesn't work on FF and fix it. The test I wrote worked great on all 3 supported browsers but when I pasted it into the live site it doesn't work with FF or Safari but does under IE6.
Now...
Yes, this is permanent. It has always been the limit but it was never strictly enforced. When sigs got way beyond average size a moderator would ask people to reduce it. Over time the average as grown and grown to the point when almost ALL signatures are huge and there are simply too many obese signatures to police manually anymore. Signatures consume more than 50% of any given page. That's more than the content!! We have one moderator who's sole function is to police signatures and that's ridiculous. Signatures are out of hand.
To restore some order signatures will be cropped to a size no larger than 600 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. If you make your signature larger than that you won't get a warning from a moderator it will simply be clipped. Our signature cop is getting his pink slip and creeping expansionism in signatures is at an end.
Signatures are a poor way to make a home page. If you want a home page to list all of your mods or post your favorite photos or quotations then I'll try to work something out so you can do that but replicating your home page at the bottom of every single post you make is just not workable.
I wish it were a membership thing but unfortunately giant signatures effect the content for everyone. When signatures become more than half the content of an average page we need to start placing limits.
Yes, I added javascript to crop signatures. It didn't seem to work so I left it. It seems from these reports that it does in fact work on IE but not the other browsers (that's a switch).
The size I used for testing was 600x200 pixels. The real size limit should be 600x300 which is where I just set it to. Eventually I'll figure out why this doesn't work on FF and fix it. The test I wrote worked great on all 3 supported browsers but when I pasted it into the live site it doesn't work with FF or Safari but does under IE6.
Now...
Yes, this is permanent. It has always been the limit but it was never strictly enforced. When sigs got way beyond average size a moderator would ask people to reduce it. Over time the average as grown and grown to the point when almost ALL signatures are huge and there are simply too many obese signatures to police manually anymore. Signatures consume more than 50% of any given page. That's more than the content!! We have one moderator who's sole function is to police signatures and that's ridiculous. Signatures are out of hand.
To restore some order signatures will be cropped to a size no larger than 600 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. If you make your signature larger than that you won't get a warning from a moderator it will simply be clipped. Our signature cop is getting his pink slip and creeping expansionism in signatures is at an end.
Signatures are a poor way to make a home page. If you want a home page to list all of your mods or post your favorite photos or quotations then I'll try to work something out so you can do that but replicating your home page at the bottom of every single post you make is just not workable.
I wish it were a membership thing but unfortunately giant signatures effect the content for everyone. When signatures become more than half the content of an average page we need to start placing limits.
Instead of what you're doing with JavaScript, I have an alternate solution using CSS which you may prefer to use (or use in combination with your current solution, since what I'm suggesting doesn't seem to work with MSIE).
Why not just put everyone's sig in a DIV tag, specifying the width and max-height (this doesn't seem to be supported by MSIE though, so you may need to use javascript to set height instead, depending on signature content), and setting overflow to auto.
Something like this:
[CODE]
<div style="width: 600px; max-height: 300px; overflow: auto;">
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mic, your's is fine now. It's about max.
As for dead space horizonitally I can't do anything about that. If there isn't enough stuff to fill that space then that's the way the signature is designed. If it bothers you I can stick an ad in there
That space was there before. Maybe it will be improved by people strtching out their sigs more now tha they can't just create a tall narrow column.
As for dead space horizonitally I can't do anything about that. If there isn't enough stuff to fill that space then that's the way the signature is designed. If it bothers you I can stick an ad in there
That space was there before. Maybe it will be improved by people strtching out their sigs more now tha they can't just create a tall narrow column.
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Originally Posted by cthree,Apr 8 2006, 01:13 AM
Ok, I'll jump in...
Yes, I added javascript to crop signatures. It didn't seem to work so I left it. It seems from these reports that it does in fact work on IE but not the other browsers (that's a switch).
The size I used for testing was 600x200 pixels. The real size limit should be 600x300 which is where I just set it to. Eventually I'll figure out why this doesn't work on FF and fix it. The test I wrote worked great on all 3 supported browsers but when I pasted it into the live site it doesn't work with FF or Safari but does under IE6.
Now...
Yes, this is permanent. It has always been the limit but it was never strictly enforced. When sigs got way beyond average size a moderator would ask people to reduce it. Over time the average as grown and grown to the point when almost ALL signatures are huge and there are simply too many obese signatures to police manually anymore. Signatures consume more than 50% of any given page. That's more than the content!! We have one moderator who's sole function is to police signatures and that's ridiculous. Signatures are out of hand.
To restore some order signatures will be cropped to a size no larger than 600 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. If you make your signature larger than that you won't get a warning from a moderator it will simply be clipped. Our signature cop is getting his pink slip and creeping expansionism in signatures is at an end.
Signatures are a poor way to make a home page. If you want a home page to list all of your mods or post your favorite photos or quotations then I'll try to work something out so you can do that but replicating your home page at the bottom of every single post you make is just not workable.
I wish it were a membership thing but unfortunately giant signatures effect the content for everyone. When signatures become more than half the content of an average page we need to start placing limits.
Yes, I added javascript to crop signatures. It didn't seem to work so I left it. It seems from these reports that it does in fact work on IE but not the other browsers (that's a switch).
The size I used for testing was 600x200 pixels. The real size limit should be 600x300 which is where I just set it to. Eventually I'll figure out why this doesn't work on FF and fix it. The test I wrote worked great on all 3 supported browsers but when I pasted it into the live site it doesn't work with FF or Safari but does under IE6.
Now...
Yes, this is permanent. It has always been the limit but it was never strictly enforced. When sigs got way beyond average size a moderator would ask people to reduce it. Over time the average as grown and grown to the point when almost ALL signatures are huge and there are simply too many obese signatures to police manually anymore. Signatures consume more than 50% of any given page. That's more than the content!! We have one moderator who's sole function is to police signatures and that's ridiculous. Signatures are out of hand.
To restore some order signatures will be cropped to a size no larger than 600 pixels wide and 300 pixels high. If you make your signature larger than that you won't get a warning from a moderator it will simply be clipped. Our signature cop is getting his pink slip and creeping expansionism in signatures is at an end.
Signatures are a poor way to make a home page. If you want a home page to list all of your mods or post your favorite photos or quotations then I'll try to work something out so you can do that but replicating your home page at the bottom of every single post you make is just not workable.
I wish it were a membership thing but unfortunately giant signatures effect the content for everyone. When signatures become more than half the content of an average page we need to start placing limits.
Since I don't have a clue what's going on I don't have a clue how to fix this.
HELP!
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^^ After a second look I notice that my large image also has a little trimmed off the right side. Since it is within the allowed image dimensions I don't understand why it is being cropped.
And I just updaged to gold too. 
And I just updaged to gold too.
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Originally Posted by cthree,Apr 8 2006, 03:02 PM
As for dead space horizonitally I can't do anything about that. If there isn't enough stuff to fill that space then that's the way the signature is designed. If it bothers you I can stick an ad in there That space was there before. Maybe it will be improved by people strtching out their sigs more now tha they can't just create a tall narrow column.
That space was there before. Maybe it will be improved by people strtching out their sigs more now tha they can't just create a tall narrow column.If you changed the sig width to match the witdh of the message area on a browser maximixed on a screen that was 1024x768, (Yes, I realize a LOT of people run larger resolutions, but I suspect VERY few people run smaller.) Then I COULD use the space.
Just a suggestion.
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Managing the horizontal is one of the hardest design problems we have. It's very hard if not impossible to make something look good at ALL widths and that is why many if not most of the largest sites fix the width of their pages. We have to do this on the Home section or the pages look like crap. The forums allow variable page widths but we need to limit things based on an 850-900 nominal pixel width.
Because we don't know how wide a window you use and you can change that size at any time. The same holds true from people who post gallery images. Those images are a maximum size of 600x600 when posted in the forums to prevent larger images from making the content wider than the norm and causing everyone but those with the largest windows to view them width scrolling.
In short it's just too complex a problem to deal with. It's a compromise to prevent pages from becoming screwed up by people who post content that is too large for the average person to view without scrolling.
Because we don't know how wide a window you use and you can change that size at any time. The same holds true from people who post gallery images. Those images are a maximum size of 600x600 when posted in the forums to prevent larger images from making the content wider than the norm and causing everyone but those with the largest windows to view them width scrolling.
In short it's just too complex a problem to deal with. It's a compromise to prevent pages from becoming screwed up by people who post content that is too large for the average person to view without scrolling.