[Sputnik-list] new sputnik, cosmetic changes, gravatar

[Yuri Takhteyev]

>> http://www.cs.indiana.edu/picons/ftp/faq.html

Interesting.  A few questions about this: First, does anyone actually
use those?  Second, do they handle requests for different icon sizes
(e.g., 16x16)?  Third, is there any fallback mechanism?  Note that one
thing that is nice about gravatar is that there is no work on my end.
E.g., the URL for my gravatar is:

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f666af4bf2ea3f63c748bdeffb93397c?s=16&d=http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/icons/user.png

Which is to say:

"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/"..md5.sumhexa(email).."?s=16&d="..backup_image_url

(Thanks for finding the HTML bug, btw.)

> And what about OpenID? :o)
> http://openid.net/

I am all for supporting OpenID, but that's a lot more work, even to
just add client support. (Again, note that Gravatar support is means
just adding one line of code to construct the URL.)  And I think this
should be implemented as a generic module, as I tried to do with
recaptcha.

 - yuri

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