if anyof you have been to flashkit.com you will c on their forums they can have flash signitures their not to big like 50k or so ? so if you could add it that would be kewl and let us show of our flash skills hehe
RiOtEr
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if anyof you have been to flashkit.com you will c on their forums they can have flash signitures their not to big like 50k or so ? so if you could add it that would be kewl and let us show of our flash skills hehe
RiOtEr
No. Would increase the loading (rendering) time of the pages greatly and is a very needless... You can try to use an animated gif, though?
Yeah. Although we are here not for the appearence, but to help other guys and learn from them too.
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No. Would increase the loading (rendering) time of the pages greatly and is a very needless...
I strongly agree....it's getting a little out of hand. My poor, tired 56k modem is struggling as it is without adding more images to download. I suppose I could always stop images being loaded but than I feel like I'm missing out on some thing............
Get a better connection or else you'll miss out on alot of things. I'm on Dial up aswell but that's changing this weekend. I suggest you do the same. As a note to the flash subject how many people remeber MsMittens Tutorial on hacking flash or checking to see if usefull info is inside.
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Get a better connection or else you'll miss out on alot of things. I'm on Dial up aswell but that's changing this weekend. I suggest you do the same.
You're quite right. Perhaps you can give me the money to upgrade...Cash only.
50k?!? Have you any idea how long that would take to download on a 56kb connection? I'd be sitting here for hours just waiting for everyone's sigs to load, never mind the forums.
As for getting a better connection, I would if BT would cut the price of broadband to something reasonable that I could afford (certainly not more than £30/month). Until then, I'm stuck. :(
Flash is like the black plague of 56k.
Ok, people have flash sigs, on a site called flashkit.com. Well that only makes sense! It is a flash site afterall. And AO is a security site. So why not encrypt your sig here? :)
Ick! That could be a problem. I already have a flash sig, though, check it out here. It'll probably be too big, since that link doesn't contain size information, but it shou;d appear at... I think it was 400x300.
yeah their limit is 300*40 and 15k thats smaller than most images and the loading times are fine check the site out its faster than here lol
but i dont think its going to happen :(
RiOtEr
I think it would be a good idea, if, obviously, there is a size limit. I think that even with a small amount of space, you can create something kool with flash. I would like to see this happen, maybe we can have a trial for a week or two and see what people say and whether the response is positive or negative.
Greg
im sorry but i dont think this is anything but a way to keep people with slower connections off the fourms. The fourms ARE about security "most of the time" lol. If we have 50k avatars and **** and lets say 10 post on a page thats 500k for the avatars alone! most dial up users download at 2kps thats 250 seconds or 4.16 minitues to download just the avatars....
its not needed, not even worth testing. if u want pretty art go to a art fourm... we come here for the fourms not the pretty banners.
You're right. We are here to learn.
Heh, Gbin@ryR... Are you back? ROFL
Yeah, i missed u all.
Oh, i forgot. I've made my own flash sig. Check it out. Not very good.
GbinaryR, but didn't you have another account on here?? Something with an '@' in it, if I remember correctly??
Greg
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50k?!? Have you any idea how long that would take to download on a 56kb connection? I'd be sitting here for hours just waiting for everyone's sigs to load, never mind the forums.
As for getting a better connection, I would if BT would cut the price of broadband to something reasonable that I could afford (certainly not more than £30/month). Until then, I'm stuck. :(
Hi BT are cutting the price of ASDL to £14.99 a month (same as freesearve anytime)
Hope this helps
Greetings All:
Well, you may have noticed that I waited a while to respond to this thread. I wanted to give everyone a chance to express their opinions before I made up my mind on this issue.
I've decided not to start using flash on the site, at all. I know many of you were looking forward to the opportunity to use flash, I'm sorry. Here are some of my reasons.
1. Page download time. I work VERY hard to optimize everything possible so that our pages load fast! With dozens and dozens of new posts a day, asking users to wait 2 minutes for a page to load is not acceptable.
2. Page rendering time. This isn't how long a page takes to download, but how long a browser takes to format and display the page. AntiOnline uses nested tables heavily, something that netscape already has a slow time with. Adding flash would require the plugin to initialize, etc. etc. which just adds seconds onto the old load-time ticker.
3. As you may have noticed, I also work very hard to make sure that AntiOnline doesn't require any third-party plugins to view correctly, and to make sure that it is viewable by most all browsers. Flash doesn't fit within that scheme.
thanks for the suggestion though!