* Leif Gregory writes:
> I haven't had any time to sit down and work on the rogues smiley pages
> since Friday, but I was thinking this morning of doing something even
> better than just the rogue's image.
> I know PHP can create images on the fly based on user inputs. I was
> thinking of a kind of graphical vCard where you log into the site,
> post your image, add only the details you want to appear on the vCard,
> and so you'd have a final image that would have the user's image in
> the top left corner, then kind of like an ID card, with their name,
[...]
> Comments?
Good idea. Did you know that there are already something called
�picons�?
Let me copy/paste directly from the Gnus help file:
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Picons
So... You want to slow down your news reader even more! This is a
good way to do so. It's also a great way to impress people staring
over your shoulder as you read news.
What are Picons? To quote directly from the Picons Web site:
"Picons" is short for "personal icons". They're small,
constrained images used to represent users and domains on the net,
organized into databases so that the appropriate image for a given
e-mail address can be found. Besides users and domains, there are
picon databases for Usenet newsgroups and weather forecasts. The
picons are in either monochrome `XBM' format or color `XPM' and
`GIF' formats.
For instructions on obtaining and installing the picons databases,
point your Web browser at
`http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/index.html'.
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These are the small pictures you can see when browsing the Gmane
web interface.
It would be great if The Bat! supported picons, X-Faces and Faces!
Carsten
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