Dealing with the Avatar-related slowness issues

Dusty Chalk · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:18 pm

HaqDiesel Wrote:

Dusty Chalk Wrote:

HaqDiesel Wrote:

What would cause a browser to delay rendering until the images load? I assume it would be in the HTML rather than the PHP?

No, PHP. If it does anything to the URL of the image at all, the PHP script will hang when it tries to go get it. If it just copies the URL (not the image itself, just the URL string) onto the destination page, then it would be fine, but I'm pretty sure it's doing something with the image, just don't know what. Even if it's something as simple as checking its size.

I guess this could have to do with the too-large-image resizing hack, although i didn't think that was applied to avatars. Oh well, I won't have time to look it over anytime soon.

If it is well-written, it would explicitly exclude avatars. The avatars are size-checked upon submission, so size-checking them again upon display is redundant. It would never be too big, unless someone hacked in an oversized avatar somehow.

Is there someplace I can d/l the code from? I'd be happy to look at it myself ... albeit in my non-existent spare time.

HaqDiesel · **Posted:** Tue Jan 17, 2006 3:22 pm

It would be kinda pointless to look at the unmodified codebase, but I'll see what I can do about getting you a login to look at the obner code.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

I vote C because f the avatars can do the same thing then it's really not that big a deal. I'm cool with A too. I change mine like once every 2 months and i turn them off, so i don't really care either way.

Dealing with the Avatar-related slowness issues

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