Shoutbox

sigh...

Read the post!

KeyStorm said that the 125 pixels ISNT COMPLETLY USEABLE because of the 'IP Address: Logged' button.

quote:

---

Originally posted by gif83
well your suggestion isn't unreasonable... i gues you will have to leave that up to the people who decided it should be 125px to change their minds.... maybe bribe them?

but remember.. by limiting sig size.. you increase creativity and allow, or even promote young budding artists to become rather inventive...  i say... lets see wehat you can come up with
sig limits can provide great challenges for these members..

---

This doesn't make sense, i'll explain: having something smaller doesnt mean that it will be a motivation for creativity (well, it would be a good excuse for men with small pen**, blah..).

I think that this change is not necesary, not for a particular reason, even though bigger sigs would be more creative (ask Rocco about this ), but it would make the forums look like a f*cikng gallery art!

quote:

---

Originally posted by Purity

IMHO 125 is too small

---

i disagree. i personally think there better as they are now, if they were Bigger, it would make it a Pain for Dialup users to happen to download a bigger silly Sig, but again they can i supose always Disable Sigs from showing in the CP of the Forum

quote:

---

Originally posted by KeyStorm
Firstly, and most important: Zaher's sig is exactly 125px high and still it shows cropped because there is a roughly 12px of padding on the top of the sig's div which causes it to be cropped at approx 113px height.

---

It's not cropped at all in Opera, my main browser. All 125 pixels are shown, just as it's meant to be. Do you have any idea why there's a difference between browsers? O_o

I suspect that some browsers might "reserve" the space for a scroll bar, even though it's not displayed...

I'm no CSS expert, so if you want to suggest some better signature-limiting code, feel free...

code:

---

.signature {
    border-top: 1px dashed #000000;
    padding-top: 10px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    width: 100%;
    max-height: 125px;
    overflow: hidden;
    height: expression(this.scrollHeight>125?"125px":"auto");
}

---

The dodgy JavaScript expression is for IE compatibility, as it doesn't support "max-height." The margin-top and padding-top lines are there to stop the post/signature separator from actually touching the post and/or signature.

quote:

---

Originally posted by KeyStorm
In my humblest opinion, that IP address notice, appart from being almost completely useless for non-staff, takes much too much space. Actually, it could be placed over the Timestamp in the postbit or over the sig, to the left of the edited-post notice, when present, or simply below the post body, when not.

---

I dunno about increasing the size and all but i'd rather like it if the templates were edited so that non admins didnt see the Ip address logged bit cause its off no use too us.
But i dunno why but i like it there cause it some how looks good O.o

bah, if i have to see it, everyone has to

jk but to be honest, i wouldnt like the max size to be bigger it is good enough as it is. Even if wdz removed that thingy for non-staff, i would hate it to see even bigger images as sigs

quote:

---

Originally posted by Chrono
bah, if i have to see it, everyone has to

jk but to be honest, i wouldnt like the max size to be bigger it is good enough as it is. Even if wdz removed that thingy for non-staff, i would hate it to see even bigger images as sigs

---

Yeah and as animal hit the hammer on the head, "it'd be a pain to 56kers" (in my own words)
[ot]

quote:

---

Originally posted by Chrono
one banhammer to rule them all...

---

[/ot]

quote:

---

Originally posted by John Anderton
"it'd be a pain to 56kers"

---

that just doesnt make any sense at all, as sigs that are too big are simply hidden but they still load :/

Everything is fine as it is. Adding more space will make people want to make bigger signatures.

And what's so important about signatures aside from showing off your Photoshopping or text aligning abilities? Nothing. It doesn't help anyone.

Tbh, images with 70px of height are already too tall in a signature. I don't even want to mention a 150px image...

Cheers!

Hi Leo

Your signature measures roughly 80px height.

To why it should be increased: Most boards have 150+px height. If I create a sig for those, it will be a pain in the ass to specifically create one for these. As I said, I misleadedly thought this board allowed 150px height. So I created a signature of 500x150, because this was the usual limit I found elsewhere. As I read RebelSean's post I noticed it wasn't, so I felt personal frustration. Later I was thinking in a way to solve it. Many use 150px high signatures (which is btw not too much, there's plenty of boards, as said, that allow 200px), so it would be good to find a workaround in the board, so that the sigs don't stretch the post down, which was for me the primary counter-argument I may have found.
I people don't want to see sigs because they have a low resolution or a slow connection, they can always disable them from the CP.

About the code:
I'm no CSS expert either, but as I see, Opera has a different concept of 'height' as Mozilla.
Disregarding which may be right and which one wrong I suggest the following:

Post template

code:

---

<div class="sigholder">
<div class="sigbody">
<!--Signature goes here-->
</div>
</div>

---

Style template

code:

---

.sigholder{
    border-top: 1px dashed #000000;
    padding-top: 10px;
    padding-left: 0px;
    padding-right: 0px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    width: 100%;
}
.sigbody {
    border-size: 0px 0px 0px 0px
    padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
    width: 100%;
    max-height: 125px;
    overflow: hidden;
    height: expression(this.scrollHeight>125?"125px":"auto");
}

---

I haven't tested this but since Opera and Mozilla consider max-height to be different things, it's better restricting that to the actual signature (sigbody) which has no extra space for padding, border or margin.

Anyway... I see myself finally coming up with a smaller sig...