Re: Custom Emoticons and Display Names
- From: "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:15:02 -0500
Greetings,
Well 2k times 120 million users is quite a lot of bandwidth.
But who knows, maybe we'll see it in the future but I wouldn't hold your breath.
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"Criftus" <Criftus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hey,
>
> I was just wondering why Microsoft hasn't listened to a large portion of the MSN Messenger
> community and allowed custom emoticons to be used in your MSN Messenger Display Name?
>
> I understand that your entire list would then have to download the emoticon in order for it
> to display properly, but how large are they, really? The emoticon I want to use in my name
> is less than 2kb (19x19,10 frames of animation)! Even a dialup user couldn't complain
> about that.
>
> A simple option to "disable automatic downloading of custom emoticons" would even eliminate
> the small portion of users concerned about that bandwidth use, and open up all sorts of
> avenues for customizing your MSN Messenger experience.
>
> So what's up?
>
> Please, someone tell me I'm wrong and that this is actually supported.
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