.swf Sigs

the_nominator · Post by **the_nominator** » 07 Nov 2004, 18:51

What u guys think of camreron allowing us to use .swf formats in our sigs.

Advantages:
• Small but high quality animations (Way smaller than a gif would be and
high quality)
• U cant steal the persons sig!!
• U can put small games (Like 15KB is the size of a small game)
• U can make it interavtive e.g. Have a sig that has uttons so If u click on
a about me button it will show info about the person then if u click specs
it shows the persons specs

Disadvantages:
• If users go overboard and put sound in their sigs. But this can be
controlled by cameron taking away their avatar rights if they do

Psych0_Cr1tt3r · Post by **Psych0_Cr1tt3r** » 07 Nov 2004, 19:10

Stupid Q: What's stopping you from having a swf sig at this very moment?

the_nominator · Post by **the_nominator** » 07 Nov 2004, 19:18

I done think its allowed.
If I put the URL for a .swf file between image tags or by itself and preview it, it wont show it

Psych0_Cr1tt3r · Post by **Psych0_Cr1tt3r** » 07 Nov 2004, 19:21

O yeah. Didnt think about that

Post by **neon_chameleon** » 07 Nov 2004, 19:37

Yeah, swf sigs would be awesome! I wanted to do that, but it also didn't work. Only gif's work, which are usually way too large in file size.

jee · Post by **jee** » 07 Nov 2004, 20:02

Excuse my ignorance, but is it not easier to plant a virus in a .swf than in a jpeg or gif file?

Psych0_Cr1tt3r · Post by **Psych0_Cr1tt3r** » 07 Nov 2004, 20:30

jee wrote:Excuse my ignorance, but is it not easier to plant a virus in a .swf than in a jpeg or gif file?

Im not to sure about swf but Thrall once said you cant implant a virus in images since they're not executable. Or something like that

Asbestos · Post by **Asbestos** » 07 Nov 2004, 20:52

I have though of this before and I definitely agree with the_nominator. Small .swfs would be awsome as sigs.

Jee:: I think you are too paranoid. It would be fiendishly difficult to get a browser to execute code within a jpeg sig in the first place and I think flash player is quite a safe platform to run flash files from. Also, I think that the PCF community is quite a safe one, so I wouldn't worry too much.

Post by **maxxis** » 07 Nov 2004, 20:55

You have my vote. I would love SWF sigs and avatars

the_nominator · Post by **the_nominator** » 07 Nov 2004, 21:19

Great looks like its going good.

Fishzn · Post by **Fishzn** » 07 Nov 2004, 21:27

Yep, i would be another in favor of .swf sigs, would be rather kewl!

the_nominator · Post by **the_nominator** » 07 Nov 2004, 21:57

just gotta get cameron to see this
Please someone make it go to the top tomorrow when cameron's on

Post by **maxxis** » 07 Nov 2004, 22:03

Maybe we can PM him the link to this topic together with a nice message begging for this to be done.

A factor to consider is whether PHPBB supports this or not. Hope it does.

Post by **Thrall** » 07 Nov 2004, 22:31

Well, in 2002 sometime there was a SWF virus called LFM.926 - not very successful for various reasons, and it only infected other swf-files. Macromedia seem to have fixed the problem in their player, but who knows what's next

Post by **neon_chameleon** » 08 Nov 2004, 01:54

Fishzn wrote:Yep, i would be another in favor of .swf sigs, would be rather kewl!

Think I working sig would be cool, too, hey Fishy?

Post by **Cameron_Losco** » 08 Nov 2004, 18:49

Might be a good idea, I'll look into it and see what I can do.

Post by **Tel** » 08 Nov 2004, 20:05

I vote yes for having the swf sig (if it's possible). I've always wanted to have a flash sig.

Nerevar · Post by **Nerevar** » 08 Nov 2004, 20:05

Me toooo... would be realy cool!

the_nominator · Post by **the_nominator** » 08 Nov 2004, 20:26

Well u just gotta now the right places cameron

http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/97