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Originally posted by DJKAL
not with WLM
not with any messenger actually....
The display pictures of your contacts have always been cached, if MSN Messenger 6 for example had something like a contact card, you would also see their display picture, even if they are offline...
akyafr, The reason is as DJKAL said, each time you view a display picture (contact card, conversation, etc) it gets downloaded and stored in the cache so it can be used later on again and it doesn't need to be (slowly) downloaded. The benefit of this cache is also that you can see their display picture if they are offline (it only isn't updated in case the contact got a new picture... since they are offline of course).
The Plus! contact information panel works in exactly the same way since it retrieves its display picture from messenger...
It is indeed not a bug, it actually is a feature
PS: all this caching-business is also the reason why certain programs can "steal" the contact display picture so to speak. They actually don't steal a thing, they just copy the cached, and thus already present on your computer, display picture. In the Plus! contact information panel this is done the same with the link "copy display picture" (only it is better worded, as nothing is "stolen" at all, just copied).
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