Adding a topbar. (So can we do this or not Pirate Kitty / Morrus)??

[Michael Morris]

Terra's right, it's JAVA script so it isn't going to suck up your processor's power - download time could be a problem, but even in the cast of 28.8 it's not that bad.

The server's only contribution is the upload time. And I would point out that more than a few folks have 'sigs well in excess of 21 K, so I don't *think* this addition is that much of a problem.

 

[Dragongirl]

It's and interesting idea, but with the boards already slowed down by all the 3.5 news gawkers (and I mean that in a nice way) I would rather not see something that slows it down more, even if only a few seconds a page. Can you make it optional?

 

[Darkness]

Michael Morris has since checked it again and found that the extra time is only 1/8 of the original estimate, BTW.
So it's not a biggie.

 

[Michael Morris]

Michael Morris has since checked it again and found that the extra time is only 1/8 of the original estimate, BTW.
So it's not a biggie.

I spoke too soon. My initial pessimistic outlook was correct.

 

[Michael Morris]

It's and interesting idea, but with the boards already slowed down by all the 3.5 news gawkers (and I mean that in a nice way) I would rather not see something that slows it down more, even if only a few seconds a page. Can you make it optional?

Making it optional would require altering the messageboard code in a major fashion. That said, it *theoretically can be done (It's a question of omitting 2 include calls).

 

[Darkness]

I spoke too soon. My initial pessimistic outlook was correct.

Damn - that sucks.

 

[Michael Morris]

BTW, if you want to get a firm idea on how this would affect downloads, visit the Dusk pages (empty your cache first if you've been there before). The code used on those pages is virtually identical to what I'm suggesting.

 

[Blacksway]

Don't mean to throw cold water on what is quite a nice looking menubar, but I can't seem to get it working in Netscape. Has anyone tried it on a Mac?

 

[Michael Morris]

Version? Netscape isn't 4.0 compliant until version 5.0 (which is the main reason they lost out to MSIE).

 

[Blacksway]

I was using netscape 4.7. Still a browser we check for here at work. (I'm a web developer)