Originally Posted by Psychophan7
It should only be picking one image each load and using it for every instance.
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yes, my point being that: if i want to randomize N signature images, and i often have more than N posts visible on any given page of my addon's comments, then if perfectly random all N images would be downloaded on the typical page view there, and in terms of bandwidth that would materially be no different than a single animated GIF containing the same N images.
so, if a user is viewing a page where i have a large number of posts, going to all this trouble to host PHP and randomize images will not necessarily save them anything versus using the animated GIF. of course, the animated GIF always guarantees the worst case, in terms of download size, so maybe it is worth it.
if there is a way to randomize URIs, however, saving me the trouble of transferring and "post-processing" images, i could see that as a definite win
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