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I’ve noticed that the Preview code that both the WordPress Dash, and my Comment Preview uses (okay, I stole it from there!) is really slow - read as unusable in Instant Preview mode - under Mozilla browsers (on Mac, at least). There is a noticeable lag between typing and the characters appearing on the screen, in the Text Box, let alone in the Preview Box. I wonder if it would be possible to rewrite the script so that it wasn’t onkeyup, but every 5 seconds, or something like that. Or possibly make it so it doesn’t redraw the whole lot? Perhaps the best would be that it only redraws when keys have been pressed, but not in the last 3 seconds. I’m not sure if any of these can actually be done!

I’ve come across a couple of issues with Gravatars recently: they don’t always show. And the weird bit is if I play around with the &size=xx part, different gravatars work. And the ones that did display no longer do…

<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ff3502050b3b1b00cb6c810d5c41ffc9&size=48"alt="" /><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ff3502050b3b1b00cb6c810d5c41ffc9&size=49"alt="" />
<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=833bfbcc9940cfcf0af6def751c23b05&size=34" alt="" /><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=833bfbcc9940cfcf0af6def751c23b05&size=39" alt="" />
<img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=faee9dd9ddfedbbc82b61aaa6ee1e1fb&size=50" alt="" /><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=faee9dd9ddfedbbc82b61aaa6ee1e1fb&size=45" alt="" />

Strange. And it’s not limited to my site, either, I noticed it on the Official Gravatar Forums. I assume that means it might be fixed soon.

Edit: That’s crap. The images in the bottom two pairs used to have one that worked, now they both appear grey!

**Edit 2: **Now both of the middle ones, and one of the bottom ones are all working!

Saw this on Drunkenblog, just had to snaffle and post it here.