silo
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i noticed that you can have your avatar image remotely hosted on some other server, and just specify a URL path for it. however, it doesn't specify what file types you can have as avatars.
is it just .gif and .jpg?
cos i was thinking, if you could have .swf, you could have a remotely hosted flash file as your avatar, which in turn could be linked to a database supplying the stuff in the file; so you could have a constantly updated scolling news ticker or random observations or a selection of different pictures or lots of other stuff as your avatar, and be able to tinker with it at will wherever... i suppose you could even do it from you phone if you did a nicely accessible database...
just thinking, really...
apologies in advance for clogging the board with nerd rubbish, but it seemed like a pointless-but-nice idea...
is it just .gif and .jpg?
cos i was thinking, if you could have .swf, you could have a remotely hosted flash file as your avatar, which in turn could be linked to a database supplying the stuff in the file; so you could have a constantly updated scolling news ticker or random observations or a selection of different pictures or lots of other stuff as your avatar, and be able to tinker with it at will wherever... i suppose you could even do it from you phone if you did a nicely accessible database...
just thinking, really...
apologies in advance for clogging the board with nerd rubbish, but it seemed like a pointless-but-nice idea...