Custom Emoticons and Display Names

[Criftus]

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.

 

[Marc]

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 have disabled icons in the contact window all together, i think it
looks awful!

 

[Jonathan Kay [MVP]]

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]

It all depends on how tastefully it's done. Most people just splatter
icons all over the place. A well designed emoticon positioned properly
can be very effective!