Copyright 2006Michael Bartonpalrich@gmail.com2012-02-05T07:59:07ZWeirdLooking.comhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/images/feed.pnghttp://www.weirdlooking.com/Michael Bartonhttp://www.weirdlooking.com/blog/which-portable-avatar-is-right-for-me2006-10-02T09:08:46Z2006-10-02T09:08:46ZI like the idea of avatars that travel with you, but which of these is the &ldquo;right thing&rdquo;?<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravatar" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGravatar) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>Gravatars</a> are really popular and easy to implement, but it seems like the centralized nature would make it failure-prone and a privacy debacle waiting to happen.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favatar" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FFavatar) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>Favatars</a> are a cool idea.&nbsp; On the plus side, they&rsquo;d start working right away.&nbsp; On the other hand, I&rsquo;m not sure how many people have their own favicons, and the implementation would be a bit &ldquo;fun&rdquo;.<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavatar" style="position: relative; padding-left: 8px; zoom: 1;"><span style="position: absolute; top: -5px; left: 0px; width: 16px; height: 16px; background: URL(http://www.weirdlooking.com/exticon?http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPavatar) no-repeat center center; -moz-opacity: 0.3; opacity: 0.3; filter:alpha(opacity=30);"></span>Pavatars</a> have all the same problems as Favatars, they can just be bigger than 16x16px and aren&rsquo;t tied to the favicon displayed by browsers.http://www.weirdlooking.com/atom/comments/7429