Hey peeps, I am just letting you all know that IMG tags in signatures will be switched off this weekend. Anybody wishing to displays pictures in their signatures will have to use the attachments uploader and make sure that the picture meets the restrictions in place. This has been done to avoid any large pictures being put in signatures using IMG tags. The only way we can control the size of pictures is by making sure all images in signatures have been uploaded onto EC as attachments. IMG tags do not allow us to make such restrictions so it is felt that we can no longer allow them as they are easily open to abuse. Just a little warning for ye all.
This is now done. I have also restricted them to no more than 2 images (including smilies), no more than 4 lines of text, text size no bigger than 4, and disabled quotes, lists, code and other unnecessary tags. Several of your signatures may have broken as a result of this. When creating a new one please remember that the signature is supposed to be just a couple of lines to sign off your message. Huge signatures just distract from the thread.
4 Lines seems unfair, its not like people who have six lines make the text massively huge in the first place.
There needs to be a limit though. If we increased it to 6 then you could easily say 8 lines doesn't make it massive, and so on. The line needs to be drew (drawn?) somewhere.
The line was drawn at 6 , thats what it was at. As far as I'm aware no one has ever wanted it increased.
And with six lines we ended up with some massive signatures with quotes and all sorts, so it's been reduced a bit to try to control these. It is only for signing off your message, not for your life history or other crap. 4 lines and an image should be ample.
It counts mine as more than 6 lines of text, despite the fact that it appears as an image and 4 lines of text. I'm not trying to be a pain by the way
It assumes 90 characters is a line, so if a line is longer than that it would be regarded as two (or more) lines. Maybe that's what's happening? That line calculation hasn't changed.
