[Tralala]

Originally Posted by rjmjr69

Some forums I visit have members with sig's that are out of control. Video's playing extra large pictures. I feel bad for dial up users which there are many still out there.

Just FYI, if a poster (with a video or large picture sig) has many posts on a page, it wouldn't be any slower for a dial-up user to download the page than if that same poster only had one post on the page. It's not like the page has to download the same exact thing every time. It downloads it once, and just displays it multiple times.

(IE: if I presented an HTML page showing one single image 20 times, it doesn't download 20 copies of that file for a reader, and the page doesn't take 20 times longer to download. It downloads that image once, the web browser is simply told to display it 20 times.)

I still like this (user-configurable) signature option, however, because it can make the page easier to read and cuts down on the sig clutter you are talking about. But it won't speed up downloading time for dial-up users, per se. It may speed up browser window rendering speed. But not downloading time.

Just wanted to make that clear.

That said, I have switched over from the Zachariah's mod over to this (user-configurable) one. I like giving my users the choice, and I (personally) like the cleaner display afforded by "one sig per page."

Thanks for sharing, Dismounted!