QUOTE(Avalon @ Jun 6 2006, 11:36 AM)
Your Flash sig is a very good example of WHY most forums don't allow SWF files on their forums. That sig is 3.48Mb in size. Imagine if several posters on the same page had sigs like that? A person on a dial-up connection would never be able to get the page to load. As a rule of thumb, with a dial-up connection it takes around 5 minutes to download 1 megabyte, therefore, your sig alone would take over 15 minutes to download. More than just a little ridiculous don't you think?
Most forums would limit the size for the sig, I mean a 3 Megabyte sig itself would indeed be ridiculous expecially with a bunch of people browsing the same area. If you click on the Flash sig youll notice I put in a song. That song itself is about 1 1/2 megabytes. Getting rid of this uneeded file will thus eliminate file size, it will be much smaller. I still dont see why forums do this even if you can limit the size for the files. They do this with images, so why not flash? well Until a new type of file type comes out, making high quality animation sigs into a reality might be a little longer of a wait. Ive never had luck with Gif animated sigs. Is it just me or is the quality just unberable to look at.
-But I have to admit, With more than one person using an animated sig with flash, things could possibly get quite "slow" and laggy.
Ah dial-up. Its ridiculous how many people I run into still using dial-up. As for that goes, ISP providers need to offer a more variety for areas of availability. The prices for DSL are good these days. But it still angers me how ISP providers still dont do the things that they are capable of and offer a more wide area of service.. just a thought.
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in the flash sig.
If that doesent work then i dunno.
