The reason is, it will rotate the image, so you will see a different picture each time you refresh the page. (Click again on the link and you will see.)
I want to use it as my avatar, but Forumosa won’t let me.
For those who are curious, phpbb requires an avatar URL to end with something like an image file type, e.g. gif, jpg, png, bmp etc. If you use a cgi/php/etc to process your image, you will need to do whatever magic is needed to have that program end in an image extension.
I don’t think it allows .bmp. I tried using that one once. Only gif, jpg and png I think.
You can get a random pic working from your server too, I know coz we’re on the same server. I had some help from jlick, but I think I had to write my own code though, his didn’t quite work on mine.
[quote=“Big Fluffy Matthew”]I don’t think it allows .bmp. I tried using that one once. Only gif, jpg and png I think.
You can get a random pic working from your server too, I know because we’re on the same server. I had some help from jlick, but I think I had to write my own code though, his didn’t quite work on mine.[/quote]
Mine rotates each time the page is loaded; do you know if it’s possible to rotate the image without reloading the page, kind of like an extended gif file?
[quote=“Stray Dog”]Mine rotates each time the page is loaded; do you know if it’s possible to rotate the image without reloading the page, kind of like an extended gif file?
Ta![/quote]No, as far as the browser is concerned it’s just one picture with one filename, which can confuse it when it changes. Maybe what you want is a animated gif file. But I don’t know what (free) program you need to make that.
You can use something like Adobe’s ImageReady to link separate pics into a slowly playing animation like a slide show, then save it as an optimized Compuserve GIF, and upload it via ImageShack.
That’s possible though there’s a trick here as well. Browsers will display an image file regardless of what content-type or file name extension is used. So if you have a .bmp that won’t be accepted, just rename it to have a .gif extension. It’ll work even though it the server will identify it by the wrong type. (This probably breaks all kinds of standards too, but hey, it works.)