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Topic: flash/swf avatars.

Posted By: thedave
Subject: flash/swf avatars.
Date Posted: 17 July 2003 at 6:49am

ive seen some other forums with users being able to use .swf animated files for avatars and i was wondering can i do this with web wiz instead of just gif and jpg images, i know i can have flash sigs but what about flash avatars?

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ello?!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 17 July 2003 at 9:09am

Flash avatars are not supported at present.

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Posted By: thedave
Date Posted: 17 July 2003 at 10:00am

ok thanks.

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ello?!

Posted By: djsamer
Date Posted: 22 July 2004 at 8:21pm

DO u mean that in the new version (' V7.9'), the flash avatar is not working yet?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 July 2004 at 2:59am

If you enable flash from the admin area flash files can be inserted into posts.

But there are no plans of allowing flash avatars.

Enabling flash can open up huge security holes that could allow a hacker to comprimise your forum.

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Posted By: djsamer
Date Posted: 23 July 2004 at 7:41am

ah ...OK thx