Pavatar Support Forum

Cross integration between Pavatar and Gravatar

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:12:46 GMT

Post by schultzter, 07.11.2008, 19:12:

Good afternoon...

First of all, I'd like to submit my vote to stick with term "avatar" rather than pavatar (or gravatar or favatar or whatever). So in my humble and naive opinion it should be:
X-avatar
link rel="avatar"
avatar.png

Furthermore, I think it would be cool if the Pavatar spec supported Gravatar! Since Pavatar is a spec and Gravatar is a service the two should be complimentary.

It's already possible since Gravatar generates a consistent URL for your avatar you could always use that in the X-avatar header or link href attribute.

But I would take it one step further: the avatar's URL could be mailto:... and then the consumer would need to convert that to a Gravatar URL (their algorithm is published, it's an MD5 sum).

One could even take this another step further, and add base and method attributes to link that would identify the base of the URL and the hash method to convert a mailto: href. Although in the HTTP headers we would then need X-avatar-url, x-avatar-base, and X-avatar-method.

For example, for Gravatar, you'd have something like:

I hope you don't mind my jumping in like this, I sure hope Pavatars work out 'cuz I'm in favour of anything that consolidates my profiles.

OpenID integration

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:32:11 GMT

Reply from Jeena Paradies, 31.07.2008, 17:32:

� You know, it would be great if we could integrate something like this into
� the openID spec...

I would love to have avatars intergrated in openID instead of an optional extra specification. But I don't know who to talk to about that.

� a new option in the PHP config file could be added for a
� Pavatar link, or something similar,
PHP? I don't quite understand what you are talking about.

� so that when the host makes a call on
� the openID server, it also gets the link to said avatar.
It could be really easy, the openID-server should send the url to the avatar exactly with the same method like it sends the name and e-mail address.

/Jeena

OpenID integration

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:59:35 GMT

Post by Floydius, 31.07.2008, 15:59:

You know, it would be great if we could integrate something like this into the openID spec... a new option in the PHP config file could be added for a Pavatar link, or something similar, so that when the host makes a call on the openID server, it also gets the link to said avatar.

KING OF PLUGINS

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:04:08 GMT

Post by nathan, 01.07.2008, 13:04:

"This is def the King of Wordpress plugins. Developed by the master himself Alex King.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/phonefactor/

"

Avatars

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:18:00 GMT

Reply from Jeena Paradies, 04.02.2008, 21:18:

Hi,

�

This is nice, but it does not work on my Addressbook.app, the new menu item doesn't show up :-(.

/Jeena

avatar from a laptop webcam

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:13:00 GMT

Reply from arivero, 04.02.2008, 21:13:

� � The
� � problem is, how to download/upload the captured picture to the pavatar
� � webserver of each user? Any idea?
�
� Let the user save the picture on their HD and upload to their webserver
� via FTP, scp and so on.
�
� /Jeena

Yeah, that works in both demos. But what about a webdav approach?

avatar from a laptop webcam

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:06:39 GMT

Reply from Jeena Paradies, 04.02.2008, 21:06:

� The
� problem is, how to download/upload the captured picture to the pavatar
� webserver of each user? Any idea?

Let the user save the picture on their HD and upload to their webserver via FTP, scp and so on.

/Jeena

HTML LINK tag parsing on pavatar.com is broken!

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:00:23 GMT

Reply from Jeena Paradies, 04.02.2008, 21:00:

Hi,

� My colleague tried to send this email to your spec@pavatar.com address and
� got an SMTP error back.
Sorry that was my foult, it should work now.

� The "rel" attribute of a LINK tag may have one or more
� whitespace-separated relationship names, as you can see in the
� myopenid.com HTML. Thus, the script fails to validate the pavatar
� link. The pavatar spec should also be updated; for more information,
� please see
The reason is the same as you can read in the pingback spec:

"These strict requirements are intended to drastically reduce the requirements on clients implementing server autodiscovery, as it was deemed that requiring clients to implement an HTML parser in addition to an XML parser was a too heavy burden, given how easy it would be for page authors to comply to the restrictions described above."

/Jeena

avatar from a laptop webcam

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:56:27 GMT

Post by arivero, 04.02.2008, 20:56:

Here there is a flashplayer webcam snapshoot utility that leaves the capture in a webserver for some time, and here is the same thing firefox only, without server. Don't be fooled by the size, you can adjust it in the HTML source, or simply resizing the window. The problem is, how to download/upload the captured picture to the pavatar webserver of each user? Any idea?

spec@pavatar.com bounces

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:28:17 GMT

Reply from mrxinu, 13.01.2008, 10:28:

� I attempted to send a message to spec@pavatar.com a couple of days ago, but
� it bounced:
�
� This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
�
� Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
�
� spec@pavatar.com
�
� Technical details of permanent failure:
� PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 554 5.7.1 : Relay
� access denied

We had the same problem. It looks like their SMTP server isn't configured to accept mail for that domain.

HTML LINK tag parsing on pavatar.com is broken!

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:25:37 GMT

Post by mrxinu, 13.01.2008, 10:25:

My colleague tried to send this email to your spec@pavatar.com address and got an SMTP error back. I wanted to post it here for your consideration as this looks like low-hanging fruit that, if remedied, would go far in making pavatar useful:

=======================
Greetings!

I recently tried your pavatar LINK tag verification script at

http://pavatar.com/check.html

However, it fails to verify a valid pavatar LINK tag with multiple
"rel" attribute values. For example, please see

http://cygnus.myopenid.com/

The "rel" attribute of a LINK tag may have one or more
whitespace-separated relationship names, as you can see in the
myopenid.com HTML. Thus, the script fails to validate the pavatar
link. The pavatar spec should also be updated; for more information,
please see

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-rel

Thanks!

--
Jonathan Daugherty
=======================

Avatars

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:06:03 GMT

Post by simon.menke, 27.12.2007, 13:06:

Hi,

I've made a little Address Book plugin (for Apple) which loads Pavatars for all you contacts.
Check it out at 5xm.org.

Cheers
Simon Menke

HTML Code for Blogger not working

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:04:43 GMT

Reply from Jeena Paradies, 21.12.2007, 02:04:

If I could see the code and the pavatar, I could provide more information.

/Jeena

HTML Code for Blogger not working

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:55:01 GMT

Post by kjamproductions, 18.12.2007, 17:55:

Hmmm, I added the code for the pavatar right after and replaced the url with one provided by my google page creator for my logo, but nothing happens. when i checked for verfication, it indicates nothing found. what am i doing wrong?

Sample Pavatar websites

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:41:08 GMT

Reply from Jeena Paradies, 18.06.2007, 21:41:

Ah, I see, take a look at the phpbb implementation: http://openid.phpbb.cc/2007/03/13/avatar-invasion[/link]