Most recently, walking from nothing to do across the expanses of the Internet, I decided to search all my downloaded avatars through the well-known image search engines. And here, as it always happens, the inspiration came ...
When registering for all kinds of web facilities like forums, blogs, etc., you are allowed to use your avatar by downloading it from a computer, typing its URL, or choosing one of the avatars in the gallery.
// user at the crossroadsThe first way is not good because not every user keeps his avatrau in a prominent place and he has to search all over the computer.
The second is similar to the first, only you have to search in bookmarks, etc.
The third way - euronews at this place would show part of the avatar gallery of an ordinary forum with the signature “no comment”.
There is a fourth way.
An avatar that once got on the web “lives” in it forever. Why not find it using search engines for images from Google, Yandex and Yahoo! ?!
The avatar selection form would change and take this form:
The user's work would be minimized: entering a nickname, selecting avatars from the list.
How does it work:- User enters login / nickname
- Ajax request to server
- Server request for Google, Yandex and Yahoo! with username as search string
- Data parsing ranking
- Return to user
- User chooses his avatar or uploads using standard method.
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PS I don’t know if parsing is forbidden from search engines - this is just an idea)UPD Splurov added: if on the site before choosing avatars it is proposed to indicate the services on which a person is registered (icq, lj, etc.) you can also include the user’s avatars from these services in the list.
UPD2 gugu added: There is a simpler and more correct option. The gravatar.com service, which Automattic recently bought (the wordpress creators) allows you to receive a user's avatar by email (if this user is registered in the gravatar) For example ... if the user entered email andrey@kostenko.name, then md5_hex ('andrey @ kostenko.name ') = 8789d3ef5700dfae12db208e11517792 And by going to
www.gravatar.com/avatar/8789d3ef5700dfae12db208e11517792 we will get this very avatar ...