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New smilies for the forum

please replace the current ones

December 11, 2007 8:57:16 AM from Sins of a Solar Empire ForumsSins of a Solar Empire Forums
Dear mods,

I have taken the liberty to create new gif ones (that are the ones that are displayed in the posts) from the preview ones (they are in png format), but this time with the correct tranparency settings and stuff, since i can´t stand the white borders on all the smilies.

Could you please replace them?
They are the same size, same pictures, same names, just better looking


Left is the current one, right the new .gif
Its not much to ask, is it?

WWW Link hosted on sins.bz
~30kb

pretty please
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Reply #1 December 11, 2007 9:01:50 AM
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The right once are here, just after a forum update it for some reason got changed with those white transparency.

We did report the error like a month or 2 ago, but they haven't changed it yet (

take a look at these 2 smiley addresses



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Reply #2 December 11, 2007 9:08:29 AM
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The first one is the one used by the preview template (if you make advanced posts or click the smiley button, the second one is the one actually inserted in your posts.
For smileys there is really no reason to use png, it just takes up unnecessary space, you just have to make your gifs with the right settings

my smiley pack replaces the gif ones (the ones with the white border), this is easier to do than changing the forum code to the png ones, you just have to replace the files on the server.
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Reply #3 December 11, 2007 9:35:06 AM
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the problem is that stardock uses 2 forums templates.

The one we see thru sinsofasolarempire.com and the other from here (link to this post) https://forums.stardock.com/?forumid=412&aid=169959#1389695

So the smilies have to have a transparency to work for both, which the png does have.
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Reply #4 December 11, 2007 9:43:27 AM
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true that, then lets use the pngs
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Reply #5 December 11, 2007 10:01:06 AM
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hehe, but it was a nice gesture of you

So lets make it a request for this to be fixed then
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Reply #6 December 11, 2007 10:50:42 AM
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The trouble is that png transparency isn't properly supported by IE6, which a lot of people still use.

There *are* two different sets of smilies (white and black background), it's just as multi says, someone seems to have swapped them accidentally during an update.
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