Comments on: Quickly find the Gravatar that cor­res­ponds to a given email http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/ Thoughts on web design, web development and usability Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:51:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lea Verou http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-919 Lea Verou Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:54:14 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-919 Oh my, now I'M going to have a heart attack if people actually thought that!! :-) I just meant that I like both (yes, of course Helvetica is more well-designed, but judging them independently, both are nice) and that some people will see Helvetica, but some others will see Arial (if they don't have Helvetica installed). Not that they are the same thing!!! I even reminded people in a more recent post of mine that Arial is a rip-off of Helvetica. Oh my, now I’M going to have a heart attack if people actually thought that!! :-)

I just meant that I like both (yes, of course Helvetica is more well-designed, but judging them independently, both are nice) and that some people will see Helvetica, but some others will see Arial (if they don’t have Helvetica installed). Not that they are the same thing!!!

I even reminded people in a more recent post of mine that Arial is a rip-off of Helvetica.

]]> By: Rafael http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-918 Rafael Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:55:12 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-918 I imagine some typogrpahy nerds would have a heart attack if they saw you writing "Helvetica/Arial", AS IF they were the same thing. ;) I imagine some typogrpahy nerds would have a heart attack if they saw you writing “Helvetica/Arial”, AS IF they were the same thing. ;)

]]> By: Lea Verou http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-889 Lea Verou Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:26:00 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-889 Happy holidays + happy new year to all! @Alex: Ah thanks, I had only googled. However, that doesn't really help in cases where there is no Gravatar registered. For instance, in my case, I saw a blog comment with an identicon and I was wondering if the poster used email address X, Y or Z for it. So, even if I had found it, it wouldn't help. @Andreas: It wouldn't help in anything to perform email validation. Gravatar doesn't (and can't). I can even think of a few cases where this could even be considered a feature. @garzanti Thanks! Happy holidays + happy new year to all!

@Alex: Ah thanks, I had only googled. However, that doesn’t really help in cases where there is no Gravatar registered. For instance, in my case, I saw a blog comment with an identicon and I was wondering if the poster used email address X, Y or Z for it. So, even if I had found it, it wouldn’t help.

@Andreas: It wouldn’t help in anything to perform email validation. Gravatar doesn’t (and can’t). I can even think of a few cases where this could even be considered a feature.

@garzanti Thanks!

]]> By: garzanti http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-882 garzanti Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:40:55 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-882 @Andreas: Lea is not making email validation, for a simple play of what she had done is pardonable enough :) @Lea I liked your post about rounding with precision from February this year. Happy New Year! @Andreas: Lea is not making email validation, for a simple play of what she had done is pardonable enough :)

@Lea I liked your post about rounding with precision from February this year.

Happy New Year!

]]> By: Andreas http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-876 Andreas Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:32:12 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-876 Congrats. Smart, quick and helpful ☺ My only hesitation is that, when I enter a non existing email address (like asdfasdfa34234234234), it still finds 3 gravatars. Is it normal? Merry Christmas Congrats. Smart, quick and helpful ☺

My only hesitation is that, when I enter a non existing email address (like asdfasdfa34234234234), it still finds 3 gravatars. Is it normal?

Merry Christmas

]]> By: Alex http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-858 Alex Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:13:43 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-858 -> http://johndyer.name/lab/gravatartest/ found via Bing.com which is always my second choice after google :) (http://www.bing.com/search?q=gravatar+tester) -> http://johndyer.name/lab/gravatartest/
found via Bing.com which is always my second choice after google :)
(http://www.bing.com/search?q=gravatar+tester)

]]> By: Lea Verou http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-856 Lea Verou Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:31:04 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-856 Yeah, I thought about using JS, but it would take more time to find + include that md5 script, in php it's a built-in function. The performance benefit is also questionable, since with JS you'd have the overhead of downloading the script. :) Which are the other gravatar testers? I couldn't find any. Yeah, I thought about using JS, but it would take more time to find + include that md5 script, in php it’s a built-in function. The performance benefit is also questionable, since with JS you’d have the overhead of downloading the script. :)

Which are the other gravatar testers? I couldn’t find any.

]]> By: Alex http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-846 Alex Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:25:37 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-846 --but to say the truth, it's far more beautiful than the rest, known by me, gravatar testers :) –but to say the truth, it’s far more beautiful than the rest, known by me, gravatar testers :)

]]> By: Alex http://leaverou.me/2009/12/quickly-find-the-gravatar-that-corresponds-to-a-given-email/#comment-845 Alex Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:02:21 +0000 http://leaverou.me/?p=470#comment-845 Instead of using php you could simply use javascript to md5-hash the email and manage the response from the gravatar site via ajax. Instead of using php you could simply use javascript to md5-hash the email and manage the response from the gravatar site via ajax.

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