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Originally posted by traxor
Surely now that 90% of people are using broadband internet, the limits on sizes of avatars and signatures should be changed a little bit.
I'm sorry, but dialup is still far more popular than broadband. You can't base your statistics off countries such as the US and Europe when you're dealing with an international market.
90% of the globe do not use broadband, especially in developing nations and such.
That aside, ISPs cap users (in some places) to slightly faster than dialup speeds when they go over their monthly usage allowance. I'm capped right now and there is no way in hell I am waiting for your not-very-important signature images to load. 70kb is enough as it is.
You say the average person has a 45KB/s download speed. That still means signature images would take an additional second or two to load if the size was put up and for a signature image to load - it isn't worth it.
I know I don't want to wait for your signature to load, which is meant to be a personal identifier or something similar not a "show off" of your talent.
I'd like to pull you up on another suggestion you had in regards to the fonts in the menu.
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Really though, segoe ui should never have been in the list of fonts used for the forum, not everybody has it, or will have it for a few more years.
you need to learn how fonts work in HTML. You specify which font
s you want to use and if people don't have that font then it falls back on the other fonts you specify. So people having it or not does not make any difference.
