First off, they suck.
Not all links are self-promotion links. Basically that rule exists so that we don't have members whoring out their entire sigs.
here is my new proposed signature:
as far as i can tell i've adhered to all the new rules, so what gives?
also I count 105 characters in your first line, so there is that.
well that would be an error on AT's part, would it not? what's the point of allowing up to 90 characters per line if our text is going to get implicitly wrapped before a single line of text ever reaches the full allotment of 90 characters? that doesn't even make sense as a limitation, seeing as how the text box for editing signatures doesn't take up the full width of the average display, let alone those running an older display w/ limited pixel resolution.
interesting - when i cut-n-paste it into MS Word and use the word count tool, it says i only have 85 characters in that first line (spaces included). in fact, my longest line of text (line 3 in my above proposed signature) is the only one that uses all 90 allowed characters, again, according to the word count tool in MS Word. i'm pretty sure simple addition isn't beyond either of us, so what gives? am i not accounting for invisible characters or something?
well that's my current sig, not the revised proposed sig from a few posts up. regardless, thank you for clarifying the line count thingy...i still think its quite misleading to say that up to 90 characters can be used per line of text, when clearly 90 characters will not fit on one line of text in the signature edit box...not even if you switch from the default size 2 front to size 1.
i know, i know...its just a little irritating. and i don't mean to point fingers (you're probably right - its probably more of a VB issue than it is an AT issue). but due to this VB issue of implicit text wrapping, the longest single line of text allowed in my proposed sig as it stands is 49 characters...well short of the supposed 90 allowed characters, wouldn't you say? if they just made the compliance rules match what we are actually able to do with signatures, i wouldn't have a complaint in the first place. but when they tell us we can have up to 90 characters per line, and in reality its actually closer to half that, it's bound to raise some eyebrows...even when i switch to a size 1 font, the most characters i can get on a single line of text is 58...still well short of the supposed 90 allowed characters.
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