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sig bug... by .blade// on 10-25-2004 at 08:59 PM
look @ Xero_cool's sig....it cuts off his text, but if you highlight and drag it, you can scroll down o.O
(I dunno if this happens in other browsers 
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Original post in Your old Avatars and Signatures!
Edit: This doesn't seem to happen in Internet Explorer, but the background of his avitar shows up brownish
RE: sig bug... by Xero_Cool on 10-25-2004 at 09:01 PM
Yeh...I was gonna say WTF is up with that...And it won't allow me to put up my damn avatar from another site...wtf?
RE: sig bug... by wj on 10-25-2004 at 09:04 PM
It's not a bug, It's a blasted feature. Length limit!
RE: sig bug... by Xero_Cool on 10-25-2004 at 09:04 PM
It isn't the limit....I still have like 200 more characters to go ...
RE: sig bug... by .blade// on 10-25-2004 at 09:05 PM
And, like I said:
quote:
Originally posted by blade
This doesn't seem to happen in Internet Explorer, but the background of his avitar shows up brownish
RE: sig bug... by WDZ on 10-25-2004 at 09:06 PM
quote:There is a character limit AND an actual size/pixel limit.
Originally posted by Xero_Cool
It isn't the limit....I still have like 200 more characters to go ...
RE: sig bug... by KeyStorm on 10-25-2004 at 09:07 PM
It's a space limitation, about... 150px height?
Yeah.
Blade, that's been happening for some months now. You didn't discover any bug, whatsoever.
Damn WDZ
RE: sig bug... by Xero_Cool on 10-25-2004 at 09:07 PM
Avatar I get, Sig i don't.
RE: sig bug... by .blade// on 10-25-2004 at 09:08 PM
But look, it doesn't happen in IE :
RE: sig bug... by Xero_Cool on 10-25-2004 at 09:09 PM
in IE it works fine and btw, WTF do i have a orange background in IE? thats not how its suppose to look like. IE sucks these days.
Edit LMAO Blade. My sigs background is gray to you and orange to me in ie
RE: sig bug... by WDZ on 10-25-2004 at 09:11 PM
quote:Doesn't happen in Opera either.
Originally posted by blade
But look, it doesn't happen in IE
I think Firefox allows room for a non-existent scrollbar, and as far as I know, there's nothing I can do about it.
quote:IE doesn't support PNG transparency properly.
Originally posted by Xero_Cool
in IE it works fine and btw, WTF do i have a orange background in IE? thats not how its suppose to look like. IE sucks these days.
RE: sig bug... by KeyStorm on 10-25-2004 at 09:12 PM
That bug is from MSIE, wich can't parse the 8 bit alpha channel from PNG.
Damn WDZ x2
RE: sig bug... by wj on 10-26-2004 at 02:55 AM
Damn Bill (gates that is)..... FIX IE!
RE: sig bug... by .Roy on 10-26-2004 at 09:39 AM
maybe convert your image to a gif... 
thats a great extension..
RE: sig bug... by CookieRevised on 10-26-2004 at 01:51 PM
quote:Like WDZ already said, that's because MSIE doesn't support 8bit alpha channels for transparency.
Originally posted by Xero_Cool
Edit LMAO Blade. My sigs background is gray to you and orange to me in ie
1) You can fix this easly by not using a 8bit alpha channel for the transparency. You sig doesn't even need to have 8bit alpha transparency, so why using it
Not only will your PNG be smaller, but all the browsers will show it correctly.size gained by doing this: 45.056 bytes -> 40.960 bytes
Actually when editing your sig, I've seen that you aliased the border to white. Either alias it so you do use 8 bit alpha transparency, or make it so that you don't blend to white cause this will look ugly on darker backgrounds...
size gained by doing this: 40.960 bytes -> 40.847 bytes
2) Also there are some leftover pixels in the "transparent" border which should be cleared.
size gained by doing this: 40.847 bytes -> 40.541 bytes
3) And why using millions of colors when you're only using 245 colors. That can easly be cropped down which will be, again, smaller, by using an Octree Color Cut (big term for "strip every unused color").
size gained by doing this: 40.541 bytes -> 18.651 bytes
4) And because many colors of pixels are nearly the same, you can even reduce that so that compression of the image will be better and the size reduced even more, by using Median Color Cut instead of Octree...
size gained by doing this: 40.541 bytes -> 14.688 bytes
5) And because I used the Median Cut Filter instead and because this is a PNG (which can store palettes in the order of 2^X), I can now use the Octree method to even further reduce filesize (only a few bytes though).
size gained by doing this: 14.688 bytes -> 14.680 bytes
quote:nope, converting it to GIF will be useless in this case as the compression of the PNG is better then the one from GIF (in this case)
Originally posted by DureX
maybe convert your image to a gif...
Thus, the final (fixed) image which is much much smaller in size then the original one (reduced by 66%!), but will show like it should show in every browser:
- image cropped to exclude leftover pixels
- removed the pure white blending
- colors reduced to 165 color palette (with Median Cut and Octree Cut method)
RE: sig bug... by CookieRevised on 10-26-2004 at 02:13 PM
You could even reduce the colors even more with almost no visible change to reduce the filesize even more.
For example to +-64 colors (rough reduction, so some minute change can be visible): 10.430 bytes
RE: sig bug... by WDZ on 10-26-2004 at 04:00 PM
omg...
to Cookie, the 1337 graphics expert.
RE: sig bug... by user27089 on 10-26-2004 at 06:24 PM
quote:
Originally posted by WDZ
omg...
Hahaha, blade its not a bug, its just one of the features of Mozilla Firefox, if you go onto weebl's stuff, you can scroll the vertical banner on the far right.
Although WDZ, in firefox you can't see the whole of saralk's sig and some other peoples sig's, but when you view this in Internet Explorer you can see it, its as if the height decreases when you use firefox, all I know is that its irritating..
RE: sig bug... by CookieRevised on 10-26-2004 at 06:31 PM
Well, look at it as an extra height limitation then
RE: sig bug... by user27089 on 10-26-2004 at 08:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by CookieRevised
Well, look at it as an extra height limitation then
But surely it should be edited so that there isn't this problem, its preventing users of this forum from viewing possible masterpieces that they could see in internet explorer.
RE: sig bug... by WDZ on 10-26-2004 at 09:33 PM
quote:I can't do anything as long as Firefox and IE/Opera have this difference!
Originally posted by traxor
But surely it should be edited so that there isn't this problem, its preventing users of this forum from viewing possible masterpieces that they could see in internet explorer.
RE: sig bug... by wj on 10-26-2004 at 11:41 PM
Honestly, If we had to guess (And this is just a guess).
Firefox is following the standard for that "markup" better then IE/Opera. So really DZ just needs to wait for IE and Opera to become more standards compatible before he can "correct" this valuable "feature"