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[CJ (Chris)]

Because of the image size, and my eyesight, I can't make head nor tail of some users avatars. Some of them look quite intriguing! Can they be made to auto zoom with a mouse over, or is there already some way of doing this that I am unaware of?

PS, this place is fantastic!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Chris,

From memory the avatars are loaded as 80x80 pixel images. If you were to zoom in on them, they would be blurry after about 200% magnification.

H

[wasyoungonce (Brendan)]

Hi Chris

Yes small print and images for those focus challenged is a real pain these days. A bigger monitor allows bigger resolution lets say 1080i or P for horizontal resolution...much easier on the eyes.

As H said since the avatars are 80 x 80 pixels...enlarging them will make them look grainy

But a cheap trick is to use "ctrl and scroll wheel" on your mouse or "ctrl + or - key" to enlarge or shrink the page you are seeing.

Lastly my favourite for visually challenged...folk....use virtual magnifying glass...like holding a magnifying glass over the area your want.

Here is the difference:
H's head normal size and H's Head with the magnifier...ain't he a hottie (remember to click image to open them in another window for comparative sizes as this windows looks like it resizes them to almost the same! but in a new window...hell he has a big head!!

[CJ (Chris)]

Of course! Ctrl +/-
The fact that I'd forgotten that is embarassing and slightly worrying!
Reminds me of the "I'm too stupid to own one of these" story.
I'm usually reading IIS on a smallish laptop which can't have helped. No mouse too.
As for H being a hottie, no comment!

Cheers fellers.