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Hot on the heels of a post I wrote 4 years ago, wouldn't it be useful to have a well-known URl for user avatar images? When I sign up to a web service, I don't want to faff around uploading an image to use as my avatar. I want that service to look at my […]
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@Edent I really like this idea and it moves away from relying on gravatar.
Having said that, There is already the h-card format where you can point to an avatar image.
@robb
True. But I'm not sure how I discover a h-card without requesting and then parsing HTML.
I'm think of this as a way to simplify things.