Flash Avatars?

[rpertusio]

just FYI, the flash player is installed on ~97% of computers as of 2003

[Urban_Squrill]

Flash Avatars would be sweet.

[izaic3]

some may even be able to be interactive, that would be really cool! but the sound issue, but other than that, yah

[brandon184]

The audio issue is the key point... I most certainly am not interested in listening to the miscellaneous sounds people would choose to place in their avatars. And I'd imagine that a plethora of others would agree with me.

Flash object code is huge compared to the simple <IMG SRC requied to display a regular GIF or JPEG avatar. And JavaScript Flash plugin checking? Sounds like it would slow things down.

Brandon